Winters in AlgeriaHarper & brothers, 1890 - 262 Seiten |
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Seite 263 - CARTHAGE. Carthage and her Remains : being an Account of the Excavations and Researches on the Site of the Phoenician Metropolis in Africa and other adjacent Places. Conducted under the Auspices of Her Majesty's Government.
Seite 262 - A History of Rome from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire. With Chapters on the History of Literature and Art. By HENRY G. LiDDELL, DD, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford. Engravings. Large 12mo, 778 pages, Cloth, ®2 00. C3- A SMALLER HISTORY OF ROME from the Earliest Times to the Establishment, of the Empire.
Seite 263 - From Egypt to Palestine : Through Sinai, the Wilderness, and the South Country. Observations of a Journey made with Special Reference to the History of the Israelites. By SC BARTLETT, DD, LL.D.
Seite 262 - History of Greece ; from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, with Supplementary Chapters on the History of Literature and Art. Woodcuts, Seventh Edition.
Seite 263 - GRIFFIS'S JAPAN. The Mikado's Empire : Book I. History of Japan, from 660 BC to 1872 AD Book II. Personal Experiences, Observations, and Studies in Japan, 1870-1874. By WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS, AM, late of the Imperial University of Tokio, Japan. Copiously Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, $4 00 ; Half Calf, $6 25.
Seite 263 - SHORT'S NORTH AMERICANS OF ANTIQUITY. The North Americans of Antiquity. Their Origin, Migrations, and Type of Civilization Considered. By JOHN T. SHORT. Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, $3 00.
Seite 42 - the most approved mode of charming away sickness- or disease is to write certain passages of the Koran on the inner surface of an earthenware cup or bowl ; then to pour in some water, and stir it until the writing is quite washed off: when the water, with the sacred words thus infused in it, is to be drunk by the patient.
Seite 44 - I have been told, originated in the fear that if the Moos'lim should fall into the hands of an infidel, and be slain, the latter might cut off the head of his victim, and, finding no hair by which to hold it, put his impure hand into the mouth, in order to carry it ; for the beard might not be sufficiently long*.