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... road , promises to turn out a better horse than is usually met with in the country ; he delights me by the very knowing look , which he owes to his ears being slit at the top - a sign that he was foaled at night . After much screaming ...
... road , promises to turn out a better horse than is usually met with in the country ; he delights me by the very knowing look , which he owes to his ears being slit at the top - a sign that he was foaled at night . After much screaming ...
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... road . Mohammed , in all his magnificence , led the way ; the servants , equally well armed , being generally with him , and any chance traveller who might have joined the caravan ; I usually followed a little in the rear . My guide and ...
... road . Mohammed , in all his magnificence , led the way ; the servants , equally well armed , being generally with him , and any chance traveller who might have joined the caravan ; I usually followed a little in the rear . My guide and ...
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... road lay for three hours over hills covered with large junipers and other trees of the cypress tribe . This species of juniper is indigenous to the Cyrenaica ; it is the Thuya of Pliny , and though it now only furnishes the small rough ...
... road lay for three hours over hills covered with large junipers and other trees of the cypress tribe . This species of juniper is indigenous to the Cyrenaica ; it is the Thuya of Pliny , and though it now only furnishes the small rough ...
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... road did we see a trace of an encampment , and the whole country seemed deserted excepting in the neighbourhood of the wells . On my remarking this to my guide , he said that the country was filled with inhabitants , but that they pitch ...
... road did we see a trace of an encampment , and the whole country seemed deserted excepting in the neighbourhood of the wells . On my remarking this to my guide , he said that the country was filled with inhabitants , but that they pitch ...
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... road running from this , round the base of the eastern hill . On this platform , which formed the agora , stood many ... roads . To the left , immediately beneath the fountain , are the remains of a very large building , whose massive ...
... road running from this , round the base of the eastern hill . On this platform , which formed the agora , stood many ... roads . To the left , immediately beneath the fountain , are the remains of a very large building , whose massive ...
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