The Countries of the World: Middle East ; Africa ; EuropeCassell, 1876 |
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Page 83
... travellers - Herodotus yesterday , Warburton to - day - upon all and more the unworldly Sphinx has watched and watched ... traveller can cross the Arabian Desert to the little port of Kosseir on the Red Sea . Voyagers do not usually go ...
... travellers - Herodotus yesterday , Warburton to - day - upon all and more the unworldly Sphinx has watched and watched ... traveller can cross the Arabian Desert to the little port of Kosseir on the Red Sea . Voyagers do not usually go ...
Page 135
... traveller notes as decidedly providential , since union of the Jew and the negro would be , commercially speaking , dangerous to Christianity . The Angolares are the descendants of slaves , who , rising against the officers of a ship ...
... traveller notes as decidedly providential , since union of the Jew and the negro would be , commercially speaking , dangerous to Christianity . The Angolares are the descendants of slaves , who , rising against the officers of a ship ...
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... traveller's tree ( Urania speciosa ) which we have figured ( p . 181 ) , is one of the most characteristic indigenous products of this great African island . It derives its familiar name from the leaf stalks accumulating enough of water ...
... traveller's tree ( Urania speciosa ) which we have figured ( p . 181 ) , is one of the most characteristic indigenous products of this great African island . It derives its familiar name from the leaf stalks accumulating enough of water ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Sultans Principal Palace on the Bosphorus | 9 |
TURKEY PROPER | 15 |
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