The Fayoum: Or, Artists in EgyptH. S. King & Company, 1873 - 298 стор. |
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... things with which I had laden my trunks on the sage excuse that I was going into the Desert . Into a country where one cannot want anything , it is absurd to take anything . Each of us thought he had nothing but the merest necessaries ...
... things with which I had laden my trunks on the sage excuse that I was going into the Desert . Into a country where one cannot want anything , it is absurd to take anything . Each of us thought he had nothing but the merest necessaries ...
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... thing , when ' bakshish ' has become powerless in a delicate question . On issuing from the city , we fell into the midst of a mob of men , women , and children , who were all screaming with joy , shrieking , and dancing after a fashion ...
... thing , when ' bakshish ' has become powerless in a delicate question . On issuing from the city , we fell into the midst of a mob of men , women , and children , who were all screaming with joy , shrieking , and dancing after a fashion ...
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... things more fatally coarse and heavy than anything which had preceded them . Petra afforded us a shocking example of this truth . During our excursion in the Valley of Tombs , our little party , though always frivolous , had made no ...
... things more fatally coarse and heavy than anything which had preceded them . Petra afforded us a shocking example of this truth . During our excursion in the Valley of Tombs , our little party , though always frivolous , had made no ...
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... thing to fear in his case was evidently that he would insist on speaking them all at once , to our confusion and ruin . choice was quickly made ; and we concluded a double bargain - one for the hire of asses and drivers with Hassahoui ...
... thing to fear in his case was evidently that he would insist on speaking them all at once , to our confusion and ruin . choice was quickly made ; and we concluded a double bargain - one for the hire of asses and drivers with Hassahoui ...
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... thing from toiling through powdered sugar , which is the only comparison I can find for the Egyptian sand . At each step we sank to the calf of the leg , and while this painful progress lasted , until the soil became a.
... thing from toiling through powdered sugar , which is the only comparison I can find for the Egyptian sand . At each step we sank to the calf of the leg , and while this painful progress lasted , until the soil became a.
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