Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, Nide 4 |
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Abba Abuna Abyssinia Achmet Adowa Agows Amhara Arabia Arabs Arkeeko army arrived Axum Ayto Aylo Azage Azazo Bacuffa Baharnagash beasts Begemder Betwudet brother called church command crown Damot death Dixan Djawi encamped Enderta enemy Eshte Fasil favour Galla Georgis Gojam Gondar governor Guebra Gusho hand head Hezekias horse hyaena immediately inhabitants Iteghe Jidda Kasmati king king's kingdom Koscam l’Oul Lamalmon Lasta letters Mahometans Mammo manner Mariam Barea Masuah Metical miles monks morning mountain murder Naybe never night Nile o'clock officers Oustas Ozoro Esther palace passed patakas Persia person plain priests prince province queen Ras Michael Red Sea reign returned river says seemed seen Sennaar sent servant Shangalla shewed Shum side soldiers strangers Tacazze Taranta Tecla Haimanout teff tent thing throne Tigre tion told town trees troops village violent Waragna Wechne Welleta Yasine Yasous
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Sivu 468 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Sivu 397 - I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: 5 Lift not up your horn on high : speak not with a stiff neck.
Sivu 319 - He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears; and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Sivu 468 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Sivu 440 - Sierra occupied by the 3d division of infantry. — One division of French infantry arrived at the top of the ridge...
Sivu 470 - Saul caused roll to him a great stone, and ordered those that killed their oxen to cut their throats upon that stone. This was the only lawful way of killing animals for food ; the tying of the ox and throwing it upon the ground was not permitted as equivalent. The Israelites did probably in that case as the...
Sivu 473 - ... down his ribs, and so on to the buttock, ^cutting the skin wherever it hinders them commodiously to strip the poor animal bare. All the flesh on the buttocks is then cut off, and in solid square pieces, without bones, or much effusion of blood ; and the prodigious noise the animal makes is a signal for the company to sit down to table.
Sivu 397 - Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
Sivu 367 - to be the great reservoir from whence arise most of the rivers that water this part of Abyssinia. A multitude of streams issue from the very summit in all directions; the springs boil out from the earth in large quantities, capable of turning a mill. They plough, sow, and reap here at all seasons ; and the husbandman must blame his own indolence, and not the soil, if he has not three harvests. We saw in one place people busy cutting down wheat ; immediately next to it others at the plough, and the...
Sivu 234 - I lay down, then, as a positive rule of health, that the warmest dishes the natives delight in, are the most wholesome strangers can use in the putrid climates of the Lower Arabia, Abyssinia, Sennaar, and Egypt itself; and that spirits, and all fermented liquors, should be regarded as...
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| Otsikko | Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, Nide 4 Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, James Bruce |
| Kirjoittaja | James Bruce |
| Painos | 2 |
| Kustantaja | J. Ballantyne, 1804 |
| Alkuperäisteoksen sijainti | New York Public Library |
| Digitoitu | 21. elokuu 2007 |
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