A Journey to Damascus Through Egypt, Nubia, Arabia Petræa, Palestine, and Syria, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1847 |
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Page 28
... never quiet . As we passed the high rocks I have mentioned , an Arab left the caravan , and climbed to the tops from whence he could scan the whole plain . We left him lying there , while we encamped . The whole of our march has been ...
... never quiet . As we passed the high rocks I have mentioned , an Arab left the caravan , and climbed to the tops from whence he could scan the whole plain . We left him lying there , while we encamped . The whole of our march has been ...
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... never in my face . The young chief , who was on my left , watched everything I did , never took his glance from me , and evidently was as deeply interested in the matter as if he had been thirty years older . Mohammed's counte- nance ...
... never in my face . The young chief , who was on my left , watched everything I did , never took his glance from me , and evidently was as deeply interested in the matter as if he had been thirty years older . Mohammed's counte- nance ...
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... never saw a more striking sight than the sudden rush of Bedouins into action , or what they supposed to be one . The Alouins were three hundred strong . They had forty drome- daries and innumerable camels . Our people were about fifty ...
... never saw a more striking sight than the sudden rush of Bedouins into action , or what they supposed to be one . The Alouins were three hundred strong . They had forty drome- daries and innumerable camels . Our people were about fifty ...
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... our course along the Hadji road , towards Cairo , we came about sunset , into a plain surrounded by peaked hills , of no great height in themselves , never- theless , at a considerable elevation from the sea . 50 DIARY OF A JOURNEY.
... our course along the Hadji road , towards Cairo , we came about sunset , into a plain surrounded by peaked hills , of no great height in themselves , never- theless , at a considerable elevation from the sea . 50 DIARY OF A JOURNEY.
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... never occu- pied , that is called the chair of St. James -the saint having been , as they choose to say , the first patriarch at the time of our Lord . After mass was over , the patriarch received us in his room , where I found two ...
... never occu- pied , that is called the chair of St. James -the saint having been , as they choose to say , the first patriarch at the time of our Lord . After mass was over , the patriarch received us in his room , where I found two ...
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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.