The Fayoum: Or, Artists in EgyptH. S. King & Company, 1873 - 298 páginas |
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... difficulties under which our poor animals were labouring , we dismounted , and holding our asses by their bridles , made our first few steps in the sand with the cautious curiosity of children taking ▾ their first bath at low tide . In ...
... difficulties under which our poor animals were labouring , we dismounted , and holding our asses by their bridles , made our first few steps in the sand with the cautious curiosity of children taking ▾ their first bath at low tide . In ...
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... difficulties and the slowness of our progress were such that I could not repress a shudder at the idea of the desert - journey which still lay before us . But fortunately the sand is not everywhere so friable , and Providence has ...
... difficulties and the slowness of our progress were such that I could not repress a shudder at the idea of the desert - journey which still lay before us . But fortunately the sand is not everywhere so friable , and Providence has ...
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... had sufficiently feasted on the spectacle , and tried sundry acoustic experiments , we came down again , with some difficulty . That we might settle the 1 THE GREAT PYRAMID . 65 question of the Pyramids in 64 ARTISTS IN EGYPT .
... had sufficiently feasted on the spectacle , and tried sundry acoustic experiments , we came down again , with some difficulty . That we might settle the 1 THE GREAT PYRAMID . 65 question of the Pyramids in 64 ARTISTS IN EGYPT .
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... difficulties , but with no worse result than our arrival , very much out of breath , at the village where our little archæo- logical escapade had occasioned some uneasiness . It was dark , we were hungry , we had no eyes except for our ...
... difficulties , but with no worse result than our arrival , very much out of breath , at the village where our little archæo- logical escapade had occasioned some uneasiness . It was dark , we were hungry , we had no eyes except for our ...
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... difficulties of transport obliged us to re- linquish the promptings of our hearts . As for my personal achievements in the sporting line , the following is an exploit which I performed without knowing it , and which gives an idea of the ...
... difficulties of transport obliged us to re- linquish the promptings of our hearts . As for my personal achievements in the sporting line , the following is an exploit which I performed without knowing it , and which gives an idea of the ...
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