Letters from Egypt and SyriaWilliam Pamplin, 1856 - 280 páginas |
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Abou Acacia affectionate Brother Alexandria Ameen amongst ancient appearance Arab arrived Assouan Baksheesh banks beautiful Berber Beyrout Bougaz breeze cabin Cairo camels cataract cold colour cool Copts cultivated Damascus Damietta date palm dear Dendereh desert distance Dongola donkey Doum palm Egyptian England English extremely fruit gardens Girgeh groves half heat Jaffa Jerusalem Karnak Kenneh Khartoun Korosko Lakes land limestone look lower Luxor MARY VICTORIA Menzaleh miles morning mountains Napata native nearly Neuri night Nubia occasionally palm Pasha passage passed Pengelly piastres plants present Pyramids Rameses II remains river rock ruins Saad Saccareh sand scenery sculptured season second cataract seen Shendy shore side Siout species stone Suez Syria temperature temple Thebes tombs town travellers trees Upper Egypt valley vast vegetation village voyage W. A. B. Letter Wady Halfeh walls weather whilst wind
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Página 179 - The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, And every thing sown by the brooks, Shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
Página 192 - And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt...
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Página 115 - ... stung in the hand by one of the great yellow African scorpions, that had been brought to me by one of the camel drivers. Ameen, foolishly relying on a supposed immunity from the venomous effects of these and other noxious animals, which he believed had been communicated to him by a serpent charmer at Cairo for a consideration of eleven piastres, actually grasped the scorpion with his bare hand, and it instantly struck him at the root of the second finger of the left hand. He suffered intense...
Página 218 - ... being, in fact, customary in Cairo to send to the serpent-charmer when a house is much infested with serpents, just as we should require the services of a rat-catcher, to rid our premises of those destructive animals. The extreme antiquity of serpent-charming is much in favour of its honesty as an art ; and were it once ascertained that conveying serpents to the premises to be cleared, was a usual, or even frequent practice, the poor, and generally covetous, and parsimonious Cairenes, would not...
Página 218 - ... to come forth from their retreats at the word of the enchanter. Were the art of serpent-charming a mere juggling deception, how could it for so many ages have been exercised as a profitable employment by a particular tribe ? ; — it being, in fact, customary in Cairo to send to the serpent-charmer when a house is much infested with serpents, just as we should require the services of a rat-catcher, to rid our premises of those destructive animals. The extreme antiquity of serpent-charming is...
Página 87 - We were so near them, that by the aid of our telescopes we could perfectly watch their motions, and discover their minutest characters, longing all the time to be amongst them with our guns, and planning an attack we intend making on their stronghold when we return down the river. We propose to throw up a masked battery of sand the day previous to our attack, and landing on the beach before day-break the following morning, to open fire on them from behind our temporary fort as they come up out of...
Página 217 - Supposing the serpents to be introduced, at the time of exorcising, by the performer's attendants, which could not be done in the room in which the charmer himself exhibits, as he always enters alone (and under such rigid examination, when every precaution is taken to prevent deception, he would not be allowed to have a companion), how I say, could the reptiles be prevented from making their escape amongst the rafters, or in the holes about the apartment, which instinct would assuredly teach them...
Página 110 - ... or are related to the species with which we are familiar in England, such as the common sparrow, the gray wagtail, the Royston crow, the sky lark, which abounds in every field in Lower and Central Egypt, the Nile plover, very like our common peewit (also a native), turtle doves, blue rock-pigeons, besides the kestrel, hen-harrier and various other hawks identical with or closely resembling British species, as are the owl, kingfisher and many of the water fowl, some of which latter, as the flamingo,...