A Pilgrimage to Egypt: Embracing a Diary of the Explorations on the Nile; with Observations Illustrative of the Manners, Customs, and Institutions of the People, and of the Present Condition of the Antiquities and Ruins ...Gould and Lincoln, 1852 - 383 pagina's |
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Pagina vii
... Dendera , 160 Artemidos Speas , 216 Bad Company , 202 Arabs , of Sakkara , Arrows , Poison , Arsinoë , Canal , Albarouck ,. 236 Bastinado , 219 , 327 255 Blind People , 24 258 Brokers , 321 267 Burial - fields , 255 Attack of Bedouins ...
... Dendera , 160 Artemidos Speas , 216 Bad Company , 202 Arabs , of Sakkara , Arrows , Poison , Arsinoë , Canal , Albarouck ,. 236 Bastinado , 219 , 327 255 Blind People , 24 258 Brokers , 321 267 Burial - fields , 255 Attack of Bedouins ...
Pagina viii
... Dendera , Temple of , 77 Digging with Hands , 78 Death in a Village , Digging Mummies , 125 Drawings in Tombs , 142 Departure for Desert , 145 Darabukkeh , 7 Dancing , on a Boat , 49 28 Dung , for Fuel , 57 28 Drawing Water , in Cairo ...
... Dendera , Temple of , 77 Digging with Hands , 78 Death in a Village , Digging Mummies , 125 Drawings in Tombs , 142 Departure for Desert , 145 Darabukkeh , 7 Dancing , on a Boat , 49 28 Dung , for Fuel , 57 28 Drawing Water , in Cairo ...
Pagina 154
... , the size of a cod of ten pounds ' weight , and resembling the catfish of the Mississippi , is fre- quently caught . Fish seem to swarm ; but the apparatus for - - RUINS OF DENDERA . 155 taking them is too poor 154 A PILGRIMAGE TO EGYPT .
... , the size of a cod of ten pounds ' weight , and resembling the catfish of the Mississippi , is fre- quently caught . Fish seem to swarm ; but the apparatus for - - RUINS OF DENDERA . 155 taking them is too poor 154 A PILGRIMAGE TO EGYPT .
Pagina 155
... DENDERA . 155 taking them is too poor for much success . We saw a large field under water , retained from the ... Dendera , Dec. 1.— This is another epoch in life ; for I have been gratified with a satisfactory examination of the great ...
... DENDERA . 155 taking them is too poor for much success . We saw a large field under water , retained from the ... Dendera , Dec. 1.— This is another epoch in life ; for I have been gratified with a satisfactory examination of the great ...
Pagina 156
... multitudes of figures and characters , which , could they be translated , would greatly humble our pride , and lead to the conviction that we - RUINS OF DENDERA . 157 are far from being as 156 A PILGRIMAGE TO EGYPT .
... multitudes of figures and characters , which , could they be translated , would greatly humble our pride , and lead to the conviction that we - RUINS OF DENDERA . 157 are far from being as 156 A PILGRIMAGE TO EGYPT .
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Abbas Pasha Abydos Alexandria ancient animals appearance Arabs arrived Assuan backshiesh bank bastinado bazaars beautiful Bedouin Beni Hassan boat body boys brick brought Cairo camels canal character Cheops Christian cloth colors commenced common consul covered crew custom Dendera desert distance donkeys dragoman dress earthen edifices Egyptian El Arish extremely eyes feet fellah females floor Geezeh girls granite half hand harem Hassan head human hundred immense inches Karnak labor land Libyan desert limestone Luxor Malta ment miles Mohammed Mohammed Ali mosque mounds native never night Nile palace passed perhaps person Philæ present pyramids raised reis river round ruins Sakkara sand sculptured seen shadoof sheik side smoking square squatted stone streets temple Thebes thousand tion tombs town travellers turbans Turks Upper Egypt veiled village walk walls whole wind women wooden
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