Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile,: In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773, Volume 5George Ramsay, 1813 - Egypt |
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Abay Abuna Abyssinia afternoon Agows Amhara Amlac army arrived Axum Aylo's Ayto Aylo Azazo Begemder called cataract church circumcision Confu crossed Damot Dara Dingleber distance east Egypt Emfras Ethiopia Fasil feet Fit-Auraris foot ford Galla Geesh Gojam Gondar Gorgora Goutto ground Guebra Mehedin Gusho Gusho and Powussen half hand Herodotus hill horse hour inches inundation Iteghe Jesuits journey Kasmati Kefla Yasous Kelti king king's knew Koscam lake Tzana Lasta Maitsha Mariam Mikeas miles morning mountain mules Netcho never night Nile Nilometer Nubia o'clock observed overflowed Ozoro Esther Paez passed peeks plain priests province quantity quarter past rained Ras Michael river runs Sacala says seemed sent servants shew showers side Socinios Strates stream Tecla tent thing Tigre tion told trees troops village violent Welleta Yasous whole Woldo Yagoube
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Page 505 - Of your precedent lord ; a vice of kings ; A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket ! Queen.
Page 269 - ... this stain upon the enterprise and abilities of mankind, or adding this desideratum for the encouragement of geography. Though a mere private Briton, I triumphed here, in my own mind, over kings and their Y a armies ! and every comparison was leading nearer and nearer to presumption, when the place itself where I stood, the object of my vainglory, suggested what depressed my short-lived triumph.
Page 309 - I now thought, not inferior to the Nile in beauty, preferable to it in the cultivation of those . countries through which they flow; superior, vastly superior to it in the virtues and qualities of the inhabitants, and in the beauty of its flocks crowding its pastures in peace, without fear of violence from man or beast.
Page 114 - Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.
Page 459 - He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears; and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Page 11 - The small river running between the town of Adowa and the church had been dammed up for several days ; the stream was scanty, so that it scarcely overflowed. It was in some places three feet deep, in some perhaps four, or a little more.
Page 106 - It was a most magnificent sight, that ages, added to the greatest length of human life, would not efface or eradicate from my memory ; it struck me with a kind of stupor, and a total oblivion of where I was, and of every other sublunary concern.
Page 309 - I was, at that very moment, in possession of what had for many years been the principal object of my ambition and wishes...
Page 270 - I was but a few minutes arrived at the sources of the Nile, through numberless dangers and sufferings, the least of which would have overwhelmed me, but for the continual goodness and protection of Providence; I was, however, but then half through my journey, and all those dangers which I had already passed, awaited me again on my return. I found a despondency gaining ground fast upon me, and blasting the crown of laurels I had too rashly woven for myself. I resolved, therefore, to divert, till I...