 | 1875 - 782 páginas
...their hands into the bowls of softened bread, cramming the food down their throats, and swallowing all the coffee that can be made for them, with the...extreme left, where a small stream struggles through the bowlders. While we are wondering if that can be our course, the helm is suddenly put hard about, we... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1880 - 516 páginas
...is shaken out forward, and we pass swiftly on our way between the granite walls. The excited howadji are on deck feeling to their finger ends the thrill...chattering and eating, we are gliding up the swift stream, Vhe granite rocks opening a passage for us ; but at the end of it our way seems to be barred. The only... | |
 | 1875 - 786 páginas
...their hands into the bowls of softened bread, cramming the food down their throats, and swallowing all the coffee that can be made for them, with the...extreme left, where a small stream struggles through the bowlders. While we are wondering if that can be our course, the helm is suddenly put hard about, we... | |
 | 1875 - 786 páginas
...their hands into the bowls of softened bread, cramming the food down their throats, and swallowing all the coffee that can be made for them, with the...of simple men who have a stomach and no conscience. Whil<' the Nubians are chattering and eating, we are gliding up the swift stream, the granite rocks... | |
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The excited howadji are on deck feeling to their finger ends the thrill of expectancy. The first thing the Nubians Want is something to eat — a chronic complaint here in this land of romance. Squatting in circles all over the boat they dip their hands... 