Round the World in 1870: An Account of a Brief Tour Made Through India, China, Japan, California, and South AmericaH. S. King & Company, 1872 - 408 من الصفحات |
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... scarcely any three of them seem of the same nation . Arabs , Turks , Copts , Nubians , Greeks , and others , are here jumbled together ; complexions of every hue , from that of ebony to an almost Saxon fairness , contrast strongly with ...
... scarcely any three of them seem of the same nation . Arabs , Turks , Copts , Nubians , Greeks , and others , are here jumbled together ; complexions of every hue , from that of ebony to an almost Saxon fairness , contrast strongly with ...
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... scarcely be matched in a road through an Irish bog . After lunch we sally out to see as much of Alexandria as is possible during an afternoon . Pompey's Pillar and Cleopatra's Needle are generally re- cognised as the lions ' of ...
... scarcely be matched in a road through an Irish bog . After lunch we sally out to see as much of Alexandria as is possible during an afternoon . Pompey's Pillar and Cleopatra's Needle are generally re- cognised as the lions ' of ...
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... scarcely be completely thawed till we reach Ceylon . Even in this month of January there is an amount of heat in the Red Sea which makes its influence visibly felt on many of us . The god of slumber is almost omnipotent ; at all hours ...
... scarcely be completely thawed till we reach Ceylon . Even in this month of January there is an amount of heat in the Red Sea which makes its influence visibly felt on many of us . The god of slumber is almost omnipotent ; at all hours ...
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... scarcely a hundred gallons in the whole of them . We make our way back to the steamer , and the hour which elapses before we start is employed in watching the diving and swimming performances of a dozen black urchins , who have paddled ...
... scarcely a hundred gallons in the whole of them . We make our way back to the steamer , and the hour which elapses before we start is employed in watching the diving and swimming performances of a dozen black urchins , who have paddled ...
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... scarcely reached the room which is to be our dormitory , when in glides a white - turbaned , white - skirted native , and dropping down on his knees CALCUTTA . 25 before our chair , with all that 21 ROUND THE WORLD IN 1870 .
... scarcely reached the room which is to be our dormitory , when in glides a white - turbaned , white - skirted native , and dropping down on his knees CALCUTTA . 25 before our chair , with all that 21 ROUND THE WORLD IN 1870 .
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Banda Oriental bank beautiful broad Buenos Ayres buildings Calcutta Callao Canton Cape Pillar Cawnpore China Chinese coast colour coolies Cordova course distance English estancia European feet flat foot foreign garden gauchos gharry green half handsome Hankow harbour height hills Himalayas Hongkong horses houses hundred island Japan Japanese kind Kobé land leave look Lucknow mid-day miles Monte Video morning mountains Mussoorie native nearly neighbouring night Ningpo Osaca palkees Pampas pass Penang picturesque plain port Punta Arenas quarter railway reach ride ridge rise river road rock round running San Francisco scarcely scene seems Shanghae sheep Shogun shops side Sierra sight slopes stands steamer stone Strait stream streets summit surrounded tea-houses temple Tocaido town traveller trees Uruguay valley Valparaiso vessel village voyage walk walls wind wood yards Yedo Yokohama
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الصفحة 207 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
الصفحة 13 - Stood on my feet. About me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams ; by these, Creatures that lived and moved, and walk'd or flew, Birds on the branches warbling ; all things smiled ; With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowed.
الصفحة 89 - Or other worlds they seem'd, or happy isles, Like those Hesperian gardens fam'd of old, Fortunate fields, and groves, and flowery vales, Thrice happy isles...
الصفحة 176 - O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us!
الصفحة 151 - It is said of man morally, that the whole head is sick and the whole heart is faint — that from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, there is no soundness in him.
الصفحة 275 - But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken.
الصفحة 51 - Here lies Henry Lawrence, who tried to do his duty. May the Lord have mercy on his soul.
الصفحة 231 - Access denied ; and over-head up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene ; and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
الصفحة 117 - Former customers have inspired caution, — no credit given." "A small stream always flowing."