The Fayoum: Or, Artists in EgyptH. S. King & Company, 1873 - 298 стор. |
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... never really happened . Interminable alleys of tamarind and lemon - trees shade the banks of the canal ; princely villas seem to have met by appointment beside this oriental lake , and mix their vivid stripes and patterns of blue , red ...
... never really happened . Interminable alleys of tamarind and lemon - trees shade the banks of the canal ; princely villas seem to have met by appointment beside this oriental lake , and mix their vivid stripes and patterns of blue , red ...
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... never wears out a pair of boots ; and the clients of St. Crispin have a bad time of it , for everybody is always on horse or dromedary - back . We lived on ass - back during the whole of our ex- pedition in the province of Fayoum , as ...
... never wears out a pair of boots ; and the clients of St. Crispin have a bad time of it , for everybody is always on horse or dromedary - back . We lived on ass - back during the whole of our ex- pedition in the province of Fayoum , as ...
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... never before been so forcibly struck by the yellow colouring of the stream . The sand which the Nile rolls down unceasingly is the cause of this , and the current being unusually strong that day , we were literally sailing on a kind of ...
... never before been so forcibly struck by the yellow colouring of the stream . The sand which the Nile rolls down unceasingly is the cause of this , and the current being unusually strong that day , we were literally sailing on a kind of ...
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... never forgets . We came to the other side ; and it was as much crowded , as animated , as noisy as that which we had so lately left . The unpacking of the asses was as funny , as absurd , and as difficult , as their embarka- tion ...
... never forgets . We came to the other side ; and it was as much crowded , as animated , as noisy as that which we had so lately left . The unpacking of the asses was as funny , as absurd , and as difficult , as their embarka- tion ...
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... never seen a hump , except on the back of a com- missionaire . We were started off , men and beasts , in Indian file , first , because of the narrowness of the beaten tracks alongside of the Nile , and secondly , because thus we ...
... never seen a hump , except on the back of a com- missionaire . We were started off , men and beasts , in Indian file , first , because of the narrowness of the beaten tracks alongside of the Nile , and secondly , because thus we ...
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