The True Life of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton ...H. S. Nichols, 1896 - 419 oldal |
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Abomey Aden Africa Allah Amir amongst appeared Arab arrived Baloch beast Bedawin Berberah Bombay brother camels caravan cloth coast Colonel Burton Consul crowd Damascus dark delighted Eastern El-Medinah England English entered escort excited expedition explorer eyes face Fatihah favourite feet followed friends Fuga ground Haji half hand Harar head hills honour hour huge Ihram Indian Jemadar journey Kaabah Kaole Lake land leave looked matter Meccah Midian miles Mohammed morning Moslem mosque mountain Muzungu native never night once Pangani party passed pilgrims plain porters prayer present proved remained Richard Burton river road Sambuk scene seemed servants Shaykh sight sister soldiers Somal soon Speke spent stone strangers Suez Sultan sundry Tanganyika tent tomb Tongwe town traveller traveller's trees tribe Trieste Ujiji Umrah Unyamwezi usual village walls wife wretched young Zanzibar Zeila
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230. oldal - ... dwarf hills of mound-like proportions, which apparently dip their feet in the wave. To the south, and opposite the long low point, behind which the Malagarazi River discharges the red loam suspended in its violent stream, lie the bluff headlands and capes of Uguhha, and, as the eye dilates, it falls upon a cluster of outlying islets, speckling a sea-horizon.
145. oldal - About two miles distant on the crest of a hill, stood the city, — the end of my present travel, — a long sombre line, strikingly contrasting with the white-washed towns of the East. The spectacle, materially speaking, was a disappointment : nothing conspicuous appeared but two grey minarets of rude shape : many would have grudged exposing three lives to win so paltry a prize. But of all that have attempted, none ever succeeded in entering that pile of stones : the thorough-bred traveller, dear...
86. oldal - The road wound among mountains, rocks and hills of granite, and over broken ground, flanked by huge blocks and boulders piled up as if man's art had aided Nature to disfigure herself. Vast clefts seamed like scars the hideous face of earth ; here they widened into dark caves, there they were choked with glistening drift sand.
111. oldal - Asclepias formed a canopy, sable above and livid red below; it hung over our heads like a sheet, and divided the cliffs into two equal parts. Here the fire flashed fiercely from a tall thorn, that crackled and shot up showers of sparks into the air; there it died away in lurid gleams, which lit up a truly Stygian scene. As usual, however, the picturesque had its inconveniences. There was no path. Rocks, stone-banks, and trees obstructed our passage. The camels, now blind in darkness, then dazzled...
41. oldal - I was thrown so entirely amongst the people as to depend upon them for society, and the " dignity," not to mention the increased allowances of a staff officer, enabled me to collect a fair stock of books, and to gather around me those who could make them of any use. So, after the first year, when I had Persian at my fingers...
52. oldal - The will is, in truth, never free." He believes man to be a co-ordinate term of Nature's great progression ; a result of the interaction of organism and environment, working through cosmic sections of time. He views the human machine, the pipe of flesh, as depending upon the physical theory of life. Every corporeal fact and phenomenon which, like the tree, grows from within or without, is a mere product of organization ; living bodies being subject to the natural law governing the lifeless and the...
256. oldal - The belle savage of the party had large and languishing eyes and dentists' teeth that glittered, with sleek, long black hair like the ears of a Blenheim spaniel, justifying a natural instinct to stroke or pat it, drawn straight over a low broad Quadroon-like brow. Her figure had none of the fragility which distinguishes the higher race, who are apparently too delicate for human nature's daily food — porcelain, in fact, when pottery is wanted ; — nor had she the square corpulency which appears...
92. oldal - At dawn we arose, washed, prayed, and broke our fast upon a crust of stale bread, before smoking a pipe, and drinking a cup of coffee. Then it was time to dress, to mount, and to visit the Haram in one of the holy places outside the city.
369. oldal - ... parted by gloomy chasms, stand like ghostly hills in the shadowy realm. And often there is the most picturesque of contrasts : summer basking below, and winter raging above ; peace brooding upon the vale, and elemental war doing fierce battle upon the eternal snows and ice of the upper world. Of course Burton did not spend much time in criticism and contemplation. Thoroughly equipped for work, he did work. His costume on occasions appears to have been more comfortable than beautiful. During his...
147. oldal - Abibakr, sat in a dark room with whitewashed walls, to which hung — significant decorations — rusty matchlocks and polished fetters. His appearance was that of a little Indian Rajah, an etiolated youth twenty-four or twentyfive years old, plain and thin-bearded, with a yellow complexion, wrinkled brows and protruding eyes. His dress was a flowing robe of crimson cloth, edged with snowy fur, and a narrow white turban tightly twisted round a tall conical cap of red velvet, like the old Turkish...