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Página 246
... Ismailia for the express purpose of sport , especially if he also cared for wild - fowl shooting . Lazy Arab fishermen , in high - prowed boats , not twenty yards from the Port Said wharves , standing picturesquely in the bows of their ...
... Ismailia for the express purpose of sport , especially if he also cared for wild - fowl shooting . Lazy Arab fishermen , in high - prowed boats , not twenty yards from the Port Said wharves , standing picturesquely in the bows of their ...
Página 248
... Ismailia , we contrived to rig up some kind of tackle— cross - stick , gut hooks , and ordinary deep - sea lines . The promises held out to us were not realized ; but I did contrive to catch a brace of the beautiful fish that , I hold ...
... Ismailia , we contrived to rig up some kind of tackle— cross - stick , gut hooks , and ordinary deep - sea lines . The promises held out to us were not realized ; but I did contrive to catch a brace of the beautiful fish that , I hold ...
Página 256
... Ismailia is as pretty as Port Said is ugly . It was pretty , as I saw it in the winter time - thermometer over 80 ° in the shade — and when the foliage is at its best it must be indeed an oasis in the wilderness . The houses are ...
... Ismailia is as pretty as Port Said is ugly . It was pretty , as I saw it in the winter time - thermometer over 80 ° in the shade — and when the foliage is at its best it must be indeed an oasis in the wilderness . The houses are ...
Página 258
... Ismailia you may see him sitting under the trees to keep up his remembrances of the Champs Elysées by a temperate consumption of sugar - water , iced syrups , and syphon drinks . Of course we found an Irishman in Ismailia . Where do you ...
... Ismailia you may see him sitting under the trees to keep up his remembrances of the Champs Elysées by a temperate consumption of sugar - water , iced syrups , and syphon drinks . Of course we found an Irishman in Ismailia . Where do you ...
Página 273
... Ismailia ) we had seen since leaving England . A few catamarans came off as a matter of course , but as they had no fruit on board we treated them with true British contempt . The cocoa nut palms are drawn up in line all along the shore ...
... Ismailia ) we had seen since leaving England . A few catamarans came off as a matter of course , but as they had no fruit on board we treated them with true British contempt . The cocoa nut palms are drawn up in line all along the shore ...
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