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... hand of my kind and skilful young friend , Miss Salvin ; who will , I am sure , pardon the insertion of her name among those to whom my gratitude is due . The following pages are almost a literal transcript from my daily journal ...
... hand of my kind and skilful young friend , Miss Salvin ; who will , I am sure , pardon the insertion of her name among those to whom my gratitude is due . The following pages are almost a literal transcript from my daily journal ...
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... hand , as he presides over his little tobacco or silk shop . Next comes the Jew , with the immutable features of his race ; his dress equally distinctive - black turban , ‡ large and loose trousers , fastened above the knee , of a most ...
... hand , as he presides over his little tobacco or silk shop . Next comes the Jew , with the immutable features of his race ; his dress equally distinctive - black turban , ‡ large and loose trousers , fastened above the knee , of a most ...
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... hand . He licked it with his tongue , found it not yet to his taste , and handed it back to the attendants with evident dis- gust ; squatted down again , glared carnivorously , and was gratified by an entremêt of a live scorpion . This ...
... hand . He licked it with his tongue , found it not yet to his taste , and handed it back to the attendants with evident dis- gust ; squatted down again , glared carnivorously , and was gratified by an entremêt of a live scorpion . This ...
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... hand or deception in the feats performed . The body seems for the time insensible to the ordinary feelings of pain , the muscles are worked into a state of unnatural rigidity . I have felt the muscles of the stomach , and even of the ...
... hand or deception in the feats performed . The body seems for the time insensible to the ordinary feelings of pain , the muscles are worked into a state of unnatural rigidity . I have felt the muscles of the stomach , and even of the ...
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... hands so as to avoid the points of the prickles , but allow the bystanders to put them into their mouths . When the excitement has passed away , they suffer from extreme bodily prostration , and are said to be incapable of ex- ertion ...
... hands so as to avoid the points of the prickles , but allow the bystanders to put them into their mouths . When the excitement has passed away , they suffer from extreme bodily prostration , and are said to be incapable of ex- ertion ...
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Achmed Africa Agha Algeria Algiers Arab armed arrived barley Bedouin Beni Isguen Berber Berryan birds Biskra Boghar burnous camels camp caravan caravanserai carpet cavaliers centre Chaamba coffee convoy dark dates dayat descended desert distance Djebel Djelfa djemmâa dragoman dromedary English falcon feet fire flocks French gardens gate gazelle Ghardaïa Guerrara halt hand head Herodotus hill horsemen horses inhabitants Jews journey Kabyles kadi khalifat kouskousou Laghouat M'zab marabout Medeah mekhasni miles military morning Morocco mosque mounted Mozabites N'goussa native negro never night nomads oases oasis Omar palm palm-groves palm-trees passed plain race ride ridge rock rode Roman round saddle Sahara salt sand scarcely sehaurs sent sheik side Sidi skin soon Souf Spahis species specimen square stone supply tent terebinth tion Touareg Touat traveller trees tribes Tuggurt walls Waregla Wed R'hir whole yards Zobeir
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