Bruce's travels and adventures in Abyssinia, ed. by J.M. Clingan1873 |
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Ababdé Abuna Abyssinia Achmet Adowa afterwards Alexandria Algiers ancient Arabia Arabs Arkeeko army arrived asked Atbara Axum Ayto Ayto Aylo baggage began Begemder Bengazi Bruce Cairo called camels caravan carried Cataract Christian Church death Dendera desert Don Christopher Fasil favour feet Frumentius Galla gave Geesh Gondar governor ground Guebra Mascal Gusho Habesh hand Hassan head horse inhabitants Iteghé janissaries Jidda journey king of Abyssinia king's Koscam leave letters live Loheia Masuah Mecca Metical Metical Aga miles monks morning mountains Naybe night Nile Nubia Ozoro Ozoro Esther palace passed present priests province queen Ras Michael reached received Red Sea reign river ruins sailed seemed Sennaar sent servants Shekh Shendy Shum side Sidi Socinios stones Tecla tent throne Tigré told took town Travels trees tribe Turks vessel village violent Welleta Yagoube Yasine Yasous
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Stran 121 - Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
Stran 340 - ... majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us ; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds.
Stran 340 - W. to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us ; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us.
Stran 103 - He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination.
Stran 254 - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her ? What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have...
Stran 246 - It is easier to guess than to describe the situation of my mind at that moment — standing in that spot which had baffled the genius, industry, and inquiry of both ancients and moderns, for the course of near three thousand years.
Stran 247 - I was but a few minutes arrived at the sources of the Nile, through numberless dangers and sufferings, the least of which would have overwhelmed me but for the continual goodness and protection of Providence; I was, however, but then half through my journey, and all those dangers which I had already passed, awaited me again on my return. I found a despondency gaining ground fast upon me, and blasting the crown of laurels I had too rashly woven for myself.
Stran 341 - It was in vain to think of flying ; the swiftest horse, or fastest sailing ship could be of no use to carry us out of this danger; and the full persuasion of this rivetted me as if to the spot where I stood, and let the camels gain on me so much in my state of lameness, that it was with some difficulty I could overtake them.
Stran 247 - Though a mere private Briton, I triumphed here, in my own mind, over kings and their armies ! and every comparison was leading nearer and nearer to presumption, when the place itself where I stood, the object of my vainglory, suggested what depressed my short-lived triumph.
Stran 169 - The drivers suddenly tripped up the cow, and gave the poor animal a very rude fall upon the ground, which was but the beginning of her sufferings. One of them sat across her neck, holding down her head by the horns, the other twisted the halter about her...