Travels in
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共 55 段- I have already had the honour to inform you, that I had sett
- After I had drank a dish of coffee, I asked the Aga what his
- I am now so far advanced in the knowledge of Arabic, that I
- It was under these circumstances that in May last the news s
- My first station from Damascus was Saffad, (Japhet) a few ho
- I am sorry to say that I have not been able to set out with
- I doubt not that your Syrian correspondent has informed you
- The excursion to Mount Sinai was the last journey which
- I have been led to believe from various circumstances, that
- In the Hadj of the year 1817, among the pilgrims collected a
- At the time of my visit, the Nubians belonging to Assouan we
- _March 1st._ I had reached Derr late in the evening, and
- Ibrim is built upon an insulated rocky hill, just above the
- Nine hours and a half, we stopped at the southern extremity
- The two brothers, the Kashefs Hosseyn and Mohammed, had come
- Having thus endeavoured to give some account of Dóngola, and
- As the sun was near setting, when I viewed the Cataract, and
- At two hours and a half, is the village Areyga (اريكه),
- After a slow ride of six hours we reached Kalabshe, the larg
- The temple of Debot appeared to me to have been built at an
- I have already mentioned the usual dishes of the Nubians. Th
- [Footnote 41: Merawe is seven days journeys distant from Dem
- During this time I had established my principal quarters at
- _8th March._ The mountain of Om Hereyzel is of a dark gray
- _14th March._ The fine shade afforded by the numerous Doum t
- _21st March._ We set out after midnight, and marched over a
- The night of our arrival at Berber, after we had supped, and
- The people of Berber appear to be a healthy race. There seem
- The success of a traveller, in this part of the world, depen
- At a short distance from the hamlets, we came to a great num
- Just beyond the plain of Boeydha, where the road again enter
- The market of Shendy is held upon a wide open space between
- _Paper_ (Papier de trois limes, from Genoa and Leghorn), is
- The arrival of the Kordofan caravans at Shendy is quite unce
- I enquired at Shendy whether any of the slaves were eunuchs,
- According to the most moderate calculation, the number of sl
- Nothing unpleasant occurred to me during my stay at Shendy.
- Atbara is the residence of the chief of the tribe Hammadab
- The village of Goz Radjeb stands in the sandy plain, at a di
- The Hadendoa are very indolent; the business of the house is
- Some of the Tekaýrne of Darfour and Kordofan are possessed o
- We continued our route in the afternoon, along the narrow pl
- The inhabitants of Souakin, like those of all the harbours i
- The people on the island have a Kadhi, a Mufti, a public sch
- We had a fair westerly wind this morning. The Blacks were al
- _July 16th._ Early in the morning we descried the coast of A
- [Footnote 80: The Syrian Bedouins have the same custom in ba
- The kingdom of Borgo is divided into many provinces, the pri
- The country abounds in high mountains, narrow passes, and ro
- The beginning of Bedja is from the city (or village) of Kher
- After the invocation of God:—“This is a pledge of peace give
- The people of Aidab live like brutes. They resemble in their
- (75.) I believe the town of Souba to be here meant, (v. note
- He set out from Redesia, a small village nearly opposite Edf
- [Footnote 150: The latter remark leads me to suppose that by