The land of the sun: sketches of travel ... in the East |
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The Land of the Sun: Sketches of Travel ... in the East Charles Rathbone Low Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Aden Afrasiab Africa ancient Andaman Arabia Arabs armed army Arrian arrived attack Baghdad Bahrein Bedouins Berberah boats Bombay British buglahs Bunder Bushire Bussorah called Cape Captain Pullen captured carried chief Clarence Straits coast Colonel command Company's craft crew Ctesiphon deck desert despatched dhows distance East India eastern Euphrates European expedition feet fire fleet Government guns hand harbour honour Imaum India Indian Navy inhabitants island Jeddah Jowassami Karrak King Kishm land length Lieutenant Lingah Massowah Mecca merchants Mesopotamia miles Muscat native naval Nearchus night officers once Ormuz party Pasha Perim Persian Gulf pirates Political Resident Port Cornwallis Portuguese possession present Red Sea river round ruins sail savages Shatt-ul-Arab Sheikh ship shore side situated slaves Soomaulies squadron steamer Straits Sultan Tigris tion tomb town trade traveller tribe troops Turkish Turks vessels visited Wahabees walls
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 310 - Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
Seite 146 - It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word; And gentle winds, and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews have lightly wet, And in the sky the Stars are met, And on the wave is deeper blue, And on the leaf a browner hue, And in the heaven that clear obscure, So softly dark, and darkly pure, Which follows the decline of day, As twilight melts beneath the moon away.
Seite 103 - Immediately previous to the discovery of the route to India by the Cape of Good Hope, we find that the price of pepper in the markets of Europe had fallen to 6s.
Seite 116 - He heard it, but he heeded not : his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday, — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire, And unavenged? — Arise! ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Seite 214 - Sea, republished together under the title of the Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean, 1807, 2 vols., 4to., the Voyage of Nearchus was translated into French by Billecocq.
Seite 120 - Marching throughout the night, guided by their negro hosts, they bivouac within an hour's march of the unsuspecting village doomed to an attack about half an hour before break of day. The time arrives, and, quietly surrounding the village while its occupants are still sleeping, they fire the grass huts in all directions, and pour volleys of musketry through the flaming thatch. Panic-stricken, the unfortunate victims rush from their burning dwellings, and the men are shot down like pheasants in a...
Seite 72 - The city is situate on the slope of a hill, and is about a mile in length by half a mile in breadth.
Seite 332 - The naked robbers of the desert were suddenly enriched beyond the measure of their hope or knowledge. Each chamber revealed a new treasure secreted with art, or ostentatiously displayed; the gold and silver, the various wardrobes and precious furniture, surpassed (says Abulfeda) the estimate of fancy or numbers...
Seite 246 - Emaumbarra rings again with the excited, prolonged, piercing wail. For fully ten minutes does this burst of grief continue — the beating of the breast, the loud uttering of the names, the beating ever louder and more resounding, the utterance gradually increasing in shrillness and piercing energy; until in a moment all is hushed again, and silence, as of deep affliction, falls like a pall upon the assembly.
Seite 332 - Arabian general persuaded his soldiers to relinquish their claim, in the reasonable hope that the eyes of the caliph would be delighted with the splendid workmanship of nature and industry. Regardless of the merit of art and the pomp of royalty, the rigid Omar divided the prize among his brethren of Medina ; the picture was destroyed ; but such was the intrinsic value of the materials, that the share of All alone was sold for twenty thousand drams.