Notes of a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy LandWilliam Blackwood & Sons, 1891 - 161 páginas |
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... native roads have been much improved by the efforts of the German settlers , who also keep up a regular communication with Nazareth by waggon , for goods at least . Pas- sengers would find the journey rather fatigu- ing , as the road ...
... native roads have been much improved by the efforts of the German settlers , who also keep up a regular communication with Nazareth by waggon , for goods at least . Pas- sengers would find the journey rather fatigu- ing , as the road ...
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... native wine too bad for his un- educated palate ? -but it is really by no means bad . The Lebanon wine is also good , when it is good ; Jaffa wine is inferior , and that of Safed a trifle less disagreeable than Dead Sea water . A word ...
... native wine too bad for his un- educated palate ? -but it is really by no means bad . The Lebanon wine is also good , when it is good ; Jaffa wine is inferior , and that of Safed a trifle less disagreeable than Dead Sea water . A word ...
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... natives for the lack of enterprise which fails to utilise the great resources of their country . With a jealous exacting Government on the one side , and lawless tribes of predatory Bed- ouins on the other , the native cultivator finds ...
... natives for the lack of enterprise which fails to utilise the great resources of their country . With a jealous exacting Government on the one side , and lawless tribes of predatory Bed- ouins on the other , the native cultivator finds ...
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... European steamer , full of commonplace tourists en route for Beyrout , at the dead of night into a clumsy native boat , manned by decidedly unskilful oarsmen - and felt a certain to the camp . pride at the sight of the.
... European steamer , full of commonplace tourists en route for Beyrout , at the dead of night into a clumsy native boat , manned by decidedly unskilful oarsmen - and felt a certain to the camp . pride at the sight of the.
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... native dancing , and were regaled for some time with cinnamon - tea while the preliminaries were ar- ranged . But we never were allowed to see more than a dance of men , which was not very inter- esting , though one of the dancers , a ...
... native dancing , and were regaled for some time with cinnamon - tea while the preliminaries were ar- ranged . But we never were allowed to see more than a dance of men , which was not very inter- esting , though one of the dancers , a ...
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