Prose Writings of Bayard Taylor ...G.P. Putnam, 1862 |
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Common terms and phrases
Abyssinia Achmet akaba appeared Arabs Assouan backsheesh bank beautiful Berber blue Blue Nile boat Cairo Caliph camels caravan Central Africa color covered Dar-Für dark Desert distance divan Djebel Dongola donkeys dourra dromedary Egypt Egyptian eyes face feet in height gave Governor granite grass half hand Haroun Al-Raschid head hills hundred island journey Kababish Karnak Khartoum Knoblecher Kordofan Korosko leaving Luxor merchants Meroë Metemma miles mimosa Mohammed morning mountain Napata nearly night Nubian Old Dongola palms Pasha passed piastres pillars pipe plain pylon pyramids raïs reached Reitz Remeses resembled river rock rode ruins sail sailors sand sculptures shekh Shendy Shillooks shore side Siout slaves Soudân stone sunset temple tent Thebes tombs took town travellers trees tribes vessel village Wadi Halfa walked walls White Nile wild wind wood-cutter yellow Zubeydeh
Popular passages
Page 397 - There they were secure from the attacks of their enemies, being protected on one side by the river and on the other by a lake several miles in length.
Page 224 - Burckhardt, who travelled by land from Berber to Shendy, failed to see the ruins, which must have been visible from the road they followed. The former, in fact, speaks of the broken pedestals, carved stones and pottery which are scattered over the plain, and sagely says : " It is impossible to avoid risking a guess that this is the ancient city of Meroe" — but he does not mention the groups of pyramids which are so conspicuous a feature in the landscape.
Page 66 - ... antiquarian. His face was as brown as an Arab's, his eyes severely inflamed, and his hands as rough as a bricklayer's. His manner with the native workmen was admirable, and they labored with a hearty good-will which almost supplied the want of the needful implements. All they had were straw baskets, which they filled with a sort of rude shovel, and then handed up to be carried off on the heads of others.
Page 39 - At first this sort of riding made me very nervous, but finally I let the donkey go his own way, and took a curious interest in seeing how near a chance I ran of striking or being struck. Sometimes there seemed no hope of avoiding a violent collision, but by a series of the most remarkable dodges he generally carried me through in safety.
Page 314 - O'er plains where the tamarind grew, Till he saw the roofs of Caffre huts, And the ocean rose to view. At night he heard the lion roar, And the hyena scream, And the river-horse, as he crushed the reeds Beside some hidden stream; And it passed, like a glorious roll of drums, Through the triumph of his dream.
Page 160 - ... in height, where a blade of grass never grew, every notch and jag on their crests, every fissure on their sides, revealed in an atmosphere so pure and crystalline, that nothing but one of our cloudless mid-winter days can equal it. Their hue near at hand is a glowing brown ; in the distance an intense violet. On the western bank they are lower ; and the sand of that vast Desert, which stretches unbroken to the Atlantie, has heaped itself over their shoulders and poured long drifts and rills even...
Page 501 - God is great ; there is no God but God ; Mohammed is the Prophet of God.
Page 104 - The lofty shafts of the date and the vaulted foliage of the doum-palm, blended in the most picturesque groupage, contrasted with the lace-like texture of the flowering mimosa, and the cloudy boughs of a kind of gray cypress.
Page 88 - These slight yet ever-renewing changes are to us a source of endless delight. Either from the pure atmosphere, the healthy life we lead, or the accordant tone of our spirits, we find ourselves unusually sensitive to all the slightest touches, the most minute rays, of that grace and harmony which bathes every landscape in cloudless sunshine. The various groupings of the palms, the shifting of the blue evening shadows on the rose-hued...
Page 70 - Pharaohs and the Ptolemies. I omitted seeing none of the important remains on my upward journey, so that I might be left free to choose another route homeward, if possible. It seemed like slighting Fortune to pass Dendera, and Karnak and Ombos, without notice. Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.