The Suez Canal: Letters and Documents Descriptive of Its Rise and Progress in 1854-1856King, 1876 - 311 páginas |
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... land of forty leagues , which no one interested in civilisa- tion and progress can see upon the map without an earnest desire to remove the sole obstacle remaining on the grand route of the commerce of the world . The copy of my report ...
... land of forty leagues , which no one interested in civilisa- tion and progress can see upon the map without an earnest desire to remove the sole obstacle remaining on the grand route of the commerce of the world . The copy of my report ...
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... land it is customary to slay a victim on the return of a beloved relation . The animal is killed just as the traveller crosses the threshold , the blood flowing into a trench , across which the new arrival steps , when he is ...
... land it is customary to slay a victim on the return of a beloved relation . The animal is killed just as the traveller crosses the threshold , the blood flowing into a trench , across which the new arrival steps , when he is ...
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... land , sur- rounded by deserts . Its inhabitants , numbering some three or four thousand , are a wretched set , who get nothing to drink but brackish water . Our canal will give them both the water and the animation they need . I went ...
... land , sur- rounded by deserts . Its inhabitants , numbering some three or four thousand , are a wretched set , who get nothing to drink but brackish water . Our canal will give them both the water and the animation they need . I went ...
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... land ; which we could easily see for ourselves as we watched the huge waves breaking upon the beach . The hurricane was accompanied by whirlwinds of sand , which rendered the overland route impassable to ladies ; so we had to give up ...
... land ; which we could easily see for ourselves as we watched the huge waves breaking upon the beach . The hurricane was accompanied by whirlwinds of sand , which rendered the overland route impassable to ladies ; so we had to give up ...
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... land on the east of the gulf , and dine and sleep at his house , returning to Suez by land to - morrow , when we begin our caravan journey across the isthmus . The first part of our trip went off splendidly , and at eleven o'clock we ...
... land on the east of the gulf , and dine and sleep at his house , returning to Suez by land to - morrow , when we begin our caravan journey across the isthmus . The first part of our trip went off splendidly , and at eleven o'clock we ...
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