The Travels, Voyages, and Adventures of Gilbert Go-ahead: In Foreign PartsJ.C. Derby, 1856 - 295 من الصفحات |
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Acheen adventures Anam animals appeared Armenian Asia Balkh beast beautiful began Bencoolen Bokhara Borneo Buddhist Butter Pate called Camboja capital caravan Caspian Sea CHAPTER chief China Chinese clocks consisted creature crocodile dark diamond Diarbekir distance dollars earth elephant eyes feet followed four Franklin Pierce Gilbert Go-ahead gold Grand Lama Grin ground hands head heard Herat hippopotamus holy horse houses hundred inhabitants island Java journey Kamil Khan Khotan king Lama Lassa live look majesty Malay merchant miles monkeys mountains naphtha never night numerous palace passed Persia Pootala pretty priests proceeded religion rich river Saigon Samarcand Sandy Plain scene seemed Singapore soon stone story strange Sumatra Tamerlane Tartar Teheran tell temple terrible Thibet Thibetan thing thought thousand Timour told took town trade travels trees tribes Turcoman turned valley villages whole wild wonder
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الصفحة 202 - ... his own. His magnificent funeral was unsullied with the human sacrifices which desecrated the obsequies of his ancestors. His simple sepulchre, beneath a tree whose shade he had loved, became an object of veneration to his people, who were wont fondly to embellish it. This famous man was characterized by qualities fitting him for a conqueror — a genius capable of conceiving great and arduous designs...
الصفحة 73 - Winding his fold round and round the body of his antagonist, he disabled his two hinder legs, and by his contractions, made the scales and bones of the monster crack. The water was speedily tinged with the blood of both combatants, yet neither was disposed to yield. They rolled over and over; neither being able to obtain a decided advantage. All this time the cause of mischief was in a state of the highest ecstasy.
الصفحة 133 - ... water ; the gardens filled with fruit-trees, among which are the apple, plum, apricot, &c. ; the rose-tree and sweet-briar abound. I cannot walk in any direction from my tent without passing over a variety of flowers, and as this is the spring in Affghanistan, they are in full bloom. This rich valley is surrounded by lofty mountains, the tops of which are covered with snow. The wind is at this moment gently blowing from a high mountain on my right hand; this breeze qualifies the heat of the valley...
الصفحة 284 - ... once stood. The humble tent of the Arab now occupies the spot formerly adorned with the palaces of kings, and his flocks procure but a scanty pittance of food, amidst the fallen fragments of ancient magnificence.
الصفحة 284 - ... the fallen fragments of ancient magnificence. The banks of the Euphrates and Tigris, once so prolific, are now, for the most part, covered with impenetrable brushwood ; and the interior of the province, which was traversed and fertilized by innumerable canals, is destitute of either inhabitants or vegetation.
الصفحة 115 - ... be heard. He and his family to the third generation are exempted from all sorts of servitude, and their land from taxation — Mission to Siam and Hue, $c.
الصفحة 248 - IBBAHIM. 267 about a hundred millions of inhabitants. About 330 BC it was conquered by Alexander, and from that period, amid many changes and vicissitudes, it has always continued to be an inferior kingdom. At the present time its population is about twelve millions ; its territory, lying between the Caspian Sea on the north, and the Persian Gulf at the south, is about ten times as extensive as the state of New York, and seven times as extensive as New England. The government is a complete despotism,...
الصفحة 253 - Aleppo, who paid ten crowns for his ransom, and gave him his daughter in marriage with a dowry of a hundred crowns.
الصفحة 74 - ... down the branches of the tree, came several times close to the scene of the fight, shook the limbs of the tree, uttered a yell, and again frisked about. At the end of ten minutes a silence began to come over the scene. The folds of the serpent began to be relaxed, and though they were trembling along the back, the head hung lifeless in the water. The crocodile also was still, and though only the spines of his back were visible, it wag evident that he, too, was dead.