Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile,: In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773, Volume 7George Ramsay, 1813 |
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Termos e frases comuns
Abay Abuna Abyssinia Africa animal appears Arabia Arabs Atbara Axum Barom beak beautiful Begemder bird branches Bruce Buffon called cerastes clock clouds flying colour Damot desert ditto Ditto east Egypt Ensete Ethiopia Fasil Fazuclo feathers feet fish flower flying clouds throughout Galla gold Gondar Gusho Habbesh hair half horizon horn hyæna inches inhabitants Jerboa kind king Kordofan Koscam leaves legs length Light clouds likewise manner Michael mountains myrrh never Nile nose Nuba NW Ditto observed overcast Ozoro pearl pistil plant quantity rain Ras Michael Red Sea reigned Remarks rhinoceros river root round saphan says seems seen Sennaar Shangalla side species stalk stamina Syria tail teff Ther thermometer thick clouds throughout the air thunder Tigre tree violent viper wakea white clouds whole air wind Yasous yellow
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Página 245 - They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
Página 281 - Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people : for all the earth is mine : And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
Página 262 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings
Página 230 - I was in danger of breaking my quadrant or other furniture, and he seemed, by keeping the candles steadily in his mouth, to wish for no other prey at that time. As his mouth was full, and he had no claws to tear with, I was not afraid of him, bat with a pike struck him as near the heart as I could judge.
Página 272 - This noble bird was not an object of any chace or pursuit, nor stood in need of any stratagem to bring him within our reach. Upon the highest top of the mountain Lamalmon, while my servants were refreshing themselves from that toilsome rugged ascent, and enjoying the pleasure of a most delightful climate, eating their dinner in the outer air, with several large dishes of boiled goat's flesh before them, this enemy, as he turned out to be to them...
Página 319 - They take the cerastes in their hands at all times, put them in their bosoms, and throw them at one another as children do apples or balls, without having irritated them by this usage so much as to bite. The Arabs have not this secret naturally ; but from their infancy they acquire an exemption from the mortal consequences attending the bite of these animals by chewing a certain root, and washing themselves (it is not anointing) with an infusion of certain plants in water.
Página 260 - Horeb and Sinai, where the children of Israel made their forty years peregrination : perhaps this name obtains only among the Arabians. I apprehend he is known by that of Saphan in the Hebrew, and is the animal erroneously called by our translators Cuniculus, the rabbit or coney.
Página 149 - And they sat down to eat bread ; and they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Página 231 - I was obliged to draw a pistol from my girdle and shoot him, and nearly at the same time my servant cleft his skull with a battle-axe. In a word, the Hyaena was the plague of our lives, the terror of our night-walks, the destruction of our mules and asses, which above all others are his favourite food.
Página 317 - German physician was bold enough to distil the pus or putrid matter flowing from the ulcer of a person infected by the plague, and taste it afterwards, without bad consequences...