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... stone , made signs that I wanted some water . Hereupon such a screaming was set up by the only inmates , two naked children , that it could not have been exceeded if I had intimated that they were about to be devoured . Their cries ...
... stone , made signs that I wanted some water . Hereupon such a screaming was set up by the only inmates , two naked children , that it could not have been exceeded if I had intimated that they were about to be devoured . Their cries ...
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... stone fence against which he leaned , he cast his eyes upon me , and growled a very sinister kind of salutation , asking me in broken Arabic how I did . . I now requested him to give me the letter from Ankobar , but he only shook his ...
... stone fence against which he leaned , he cast his eyes upon me , and growled a very sinister kind of salutation , asking me in broken Arabic how I did . . I now requested him to give me the letter from Ankobar , but he only shook his ...
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... stone of cellular lava , two feet long and one foot broad , raised upon a rude pedestal of stones and mud , about one foot and a half from the ground . The rough surface of this stone sloped gradually down from behind forwards into a ...
... stone of cellular lava , two feet long and one foot broad , raised upon a rude pedestal of stones and mud , about one foot and a half from the ground . The rough surface of this stone sloped gradually down from behind forwards into a ...
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... stone , the grain is crushed , and gradually con- verted into a coarse flour . This is the same kind of mill that was used by the ancient Egyptians , and is represented in the excellent work upon those people , recently written by Sir G ...
... stone , the grain is crushed , and gradually con- verted into a coarse flour . This is the same kind of mill that was used by the ancient Egyptians , and is represented in the excellent work upon those people , recently written by Sir G ...
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... stone enclosure in the centre of the market - place . Numerous informants , willing to be the first bearers of good news , hurried to acquaint us with the cause of all the stir , and to assure us that we were to start in the morning ...
... stone enclosure in the centre of the market - place . Numerous informants , willing to be the first bearers of good news , hurried to acquaint us with the cause of all the stir , and to assure us that we were to start in the morning ...
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Abyssinian Adal Africa ahmulahs Aliu Amba Amharic Amharic language ancient Angolahlah Ankobar appears Arabic arrival balderabah bread brought called cayenne character Christian colour considered cotton court custom Dankalli Dinnomalee dollars durgo earthenware Efat Embassy Enarea endeavour Ethiopia Farree favour feet formed friends Galla Geez language Gibbee Gongas Goodaloo Governor grain Gurague Hawash hill honey horn Hy Soumaulee inhabitants Islam jars Kafilah Karissa kind King Mahomed Mahomedan Mahriam manner memolagee monarch morning mule Myolones nearly Negoos Nile observed occasion occupied Ohmed Ohmed Medina palace palace hill party placed portion possession present received religion residence river road roof Sahale Selassee salt saltpetre sent servants Sheik Tigh Shoa Shoans side situation skin slaves soon stone straw supposed table land tedge teff thatched Tinta tion town traveller tree Walderheros Wallasmah whilst whole women Zingero
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Page 186 - This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
Page 161 - Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land ? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
Page 187 - He will take the tenth of your sheep : and ye shall be his servants. And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day.
Page 158 - Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan ; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
Page 187 - And he will take your fields, and your vineyards and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
Page 435 - Then come the inhabitants, and place one or more parcels of gold upon the wares, and wait outside the enclosure. The owners of the flesh and other goods then examine whether this be equal to the price or not. If so, they take the gold, and the others take the wares ; if not, the latter still add more gold, or take back what they had already put down. The trade is carried on in this manner because the languages are different, and they have no interpreter : it takes about five days to dispose of the...
Page 434 - In the meantime having slain and cut up their oxen, they lay the pieces of flesh, as well as the iron, and salt, upon the thorns. Then come the inhabitants, and place one or more parcels of gold upon the wares, and wait outside the enclosure. The owners of the flesh, and other goods, then examine whether this be equal to the price or not.
Page 157 - And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
Page 272 - ... be dreadfully severe. I can answer for this, that it occasions frequent miscarriages, often fatal to the mother, and even men have been known, after a large dose, to have died the same day from its consequences.