A Journey to Damascus Through Egypt, Nubia, Arabia Petræa, Palestine, and Syria, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1847 |
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Page 11
... entered my tent with an unusually long face , and I soon saw that there was something wrong . He came to say that there was a feud be- tween his tribe and the Mezeiné Arabs , who live between the convent and Akaba . They had long been ...
... entered my tent with an unusually long face , and I soon saw that there was something wrong . He came to say that there was a feud be- tween his tribe and the Mezeiné Arabs , who live between the convent and Akaba . They had long been ...
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... , and as they bounded along , looking warily down every gully of the rocks that might have concealed an enemy . Just as we entered the glen , the man who had been sent up the hill , returned . He C 2 TO DAMASCUS . 19.
... , and as they bounded along , looking warily down every gully of the rocks that might have concealed an enemy . Just as we entered the glen , the man who had been sent up the hill , returned . He C 2 TO DAMASCUS . 19.
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... entered upon the vast plain which stretches away towards Suez on the left , and is bounded on the right by the crags and precipices that overhang the Gulf of Akaba . After three hours ' riding , we 28 DIARY OF A JOURNEY.
... entered upon the vast plain which stretches away towards Suez on the left , and is bounded on the right by the crags and precipices that overhang the Gulf of Akaba . After three hours ' riding , we 28 DIARY OF A JOURNEY.
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... entering the little man's garden , we found about a dozen palm - trees fenced in by a bank of sand , and some dry branches , with a sort of arbour in the middle . Under the stems of these trees the produce of the gar- den was supposed ...
... entering the little man's garden , we found about a dozen palm - trees fenced in by a bank of sand , and some dry branches , with a sort of arbour in the middle . Under the stems of these trees the produce of the gar- den was supposed ...
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... entered . I found that they expected us to engage them and their camels , but I lost no time in giving them to understand that my arrangements were with the Oulad Said , to whom I referred them . They then departed . On my remon ...
... entered . I found that they expected us to engage them and their camels , but I lost no time in giving them to understand that my arrangements were with the Oulad Said , to whom I referred them . They then departed . On my remon ...
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Akaba Alouins appeared Arabs Armenian arrived ascended Baalbec baggage beautiful Bedouins Beirout camels chapel CHAPTER chasm church cliffs colour convent covered crags cultivated Dead Sea defile desert dromedary Edom encamped entered excavations Fellaheen gardens glen goats Hebron hills Holy Horeb horses Howâts Hussein Ibrahim Jehoshaphat Jerusalem JOURNEY TO DAMASCUS July Khasné ladies land Lebanon looked Mehemet Ali Mezeiné monks morning mosque Mount Hor Mount Lebanon Mount of Olives mountain ornaments Oulad Pacha party passed peaks Petra pitched plain pool of Siloam precipices ravines reached rising road rocks rode round ruins sacred sand scene seems seen sepulchres Sheikh side Sinai spot stone summit Taif Allah Tancred temple tent Tiyayah told tombs took Toualeb town track travellers trees tribe valley valley of Jehoshaphat village visited Wady Araba Wady Mousa walls wild winding Zion
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Page 135 - Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter ; for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
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Page 309 - It contains a mass of every kind of historical matter of interest, which industry and research could collect. We have derived much entertainment and instruction from the work.
Page 136 - For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for My people and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted My land.
Page 135 - And they have built the high places of tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which J commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.