The Country of the Moors: A Journey from Tripoli in Barbary to the City of KairwânJ. Murray, 1877 - 334 Seiten |
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Africa Aghlab Aghlabites angle Arabs arch asked Bakkoush Barbary barber bazaars beautiful Bedouins Berbers Bey's blue brought building camels capital caravan Carthage Castle Christian city wall coast colour columns consul Cordova Corsica Djemma Djerba Djerîd dome dragoman entered esparto face Fezzân gardens gate gentleman Giovanni Goletta half harbour Homs horse hundred inhabitants interior island Jews journey Kaïd Kaïd's Kairwân Kerkeneh Khalif Lebda Leo Africanus Leptis Malta Maltese marabout marble Mihrab miles minaret Mohammedan Monastir Moorish Moors mosque mules native Okhbah olive ostrich palm Pasha passed Perruquier piastres plain poor Post 8vo prayer chamber quarter Raccadah Regency Roman round ruins Sahel sail sand Saracens sent Sfax shâoushes Sidi silk soldiers sponges steamer stone stood streets Susa Tarik thousand told tower town Trablus traveller trees Tripoli Tunis Tunisian turbans twenty vessels Warrington yards yellow
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Seite 138 - And all at once they sang, ' Our island home Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam...
Seite 135 - Within a long recess there lies a bay : An island shades it from the rolling sea, And forms a port secure for ships to ride : Broke by the jutting land on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide, Betwixt two rows of rocks : a sylvan scene Appears above, and groves for ever green : A grot is form'd beneath, with mossy seats, To rest the Nereids, and exclude the heats.
Seite 197 - O thou poor man! what hard destiny can have brought thee hither, to a place never visited by any one before? This is the first time I ever beheld a stranger. Thou miserable creature! How didst thou come, and whither wilt thou go? Dost thou not perceive what houses and habitations we have, and with how much difficulty we go to church?
Seite 138 - And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far, far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores; and if his fellow spake, His voice was thin...
Seite 95 - And hurled it on the flank thereof, and as an ordered band By whatso door the winds rush out o'er earth in whirling blast, And driving down upon the sea its lowest deeps upcast. The East, the West together there, the Afric, that doth hold A heart fulfilled of stormy rain, huge billows shoreward rolled. Therewith came clamour of the men and whistling through the shrouds, And heaven and day all suddenly were swallowed by the clouds Away from eyes of Teucrian men; night on the ocean lies, Pole thunders...
Seite 48 - His beast is like vnto the former, sauing that it is somewhat bigger, and hath poison both in the head and taile, which two parts being cut off, the Arabians will eate it, notwithstanding it be of a deformed shape and vgly colour, in which respects I loathed alwaies to eate the flesh thereof. Of the Camelion.
Seite 175 - Without the wals of this citie raine water is to be found in certain cesternes onely till the beginning of lune. ' In sommer time the Arabians vse to resort vnto the plaines adioining vpon this towne, who bring great dearth of corne and water, but exceeding plentie of dates and flesh with them, and that out of Numidia, which region is almost an hundred threescore and ten miles distant. In this citie for certaine yeeres the studie of the Mahumetan lawe mightilie flourished, so that here were the most...
Seite 48 - ... said eggs by chance hatched and fostereth them as if they were certainely her owne. The chickens are no sooner crept out of the shell but they prowle up and downe the desarts for their food, and before theyr feathers be growne they are so swift that a man shall hardly overtake them. The ostrich is a silly and deafe creature, feeding upon any thing which it findeth, be it as hard and indigestable as yron.
Seite 47 - Shape resembleth a lib. 9. p. 342. woolf, saveing that his legs & feet are like to ye leges & feet of a Man. it is not hurtfull unto any other Beast, but will rake up ye carkesses of Men out of their graves & will devour ym. being otherwise an abiect and Silly creature. The hunters being acquainted with his Denne, come before it singing and playing upon a Drum, by...