 | 1862 - 580 páginas
...ut about half past eight I was lying, half asleep, upon my bed, by the margin of fie river, when 1 fancied that I heard a rumbling like distant thunder....volume, although far distant. Hardly had I raised my bead to listen more attentively, when a confusion ol voices arose from the Arabs' camp, with a sound... | |
 | Sir Samuel White Baker - 1867 - 684 páginas
...crocodile. Tired with the heat, I trudged homeward over the hot and fatiguing sand of the river's bed. The cool night arrived, and at about half-past eight...appeared to increase in volume, although far distant. 5i5 THE RIFER COMES DOWN. [CHAP. n. Hardly had I raised my head to listen more attentively when a confusion... | |
 | Sir Samuel White Baker, William Leonard Gage - 1868 - 672 páginas
...crocodile. Tired with the heat, I trudged homeward over the hot and fatiguing sand of the river's bed. The cool night arrived, and at about half-past eight...appeared to increase in volume, although far distant. 74 THE RIVER COMES DOWN. [CHAP. 11. Hardly had I raised my head to listen more attentively, when a... | |
 | 1868 - 394 páginas
...beds of rivers, and causing inundations of proportions entirely unknown in more temperate climes: " The cool night arrived, and at about half-past eight...had not heard such a sound for months, but a low, interrupted roll appeared to increase in volume, although far distant. Ilardly had I raised my head... | |
 | Sir Samuel White Baker - 1868 - 508 páginas
...the hot and fatiguing sand of the river's bed. The cool night arrived, and at about half-past eight 1 was lying half asleep upon my bed by the margin of...distant thunder : I had not heard such a sound for mouths, but a low uninterrupted roll appeared to increase in volume, although far distant. Hardly had... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1871 - 442 páginas
...world. — The cool night arrived, and, about half -past fight, I was lying half asleep. I fancied I heard a rumbling like distant thunder. I had not...attentively, when a confusion of voices arose from the Arab's camp ^•tli a sound of many feet ; and, in a few minutes, they rushed into my camp, shouting... | |
 | 1875 - 718 páginas
...graphic description of the sudden rise of the stream : — The cool night arrived, and at about half past eight I was lying half asleep upon my bed by the margin...thunder. I had not heard such a sound for months. Hardly had I raised my head to listen more attentively when a confusion of voices arose from the Arabs'... | |
 | T. Douglas Murray, Arthur Silva White - 1895 - 498 páginas
...immersion. This is how he describes the scene : ' At about half-past eight I was lying half-asleep upon my bed by the margin of the river, when I fancied that I heard a rumbling like distant thunder. . . . Hardly had I raised my head to listen more attentively, when a confusion of voices arose from... | |
 | Fanny Louisa Dorothea Herbertson - 1902 - 308 páginas
...beasts of the chase. The cool night arrived, and about half-past eight I was lying half -asleep on my bed by the margin of the river, when I fancied that I heard a rumbling like distant thunder. A low uninterrupted roll appeared to increase in volume though far distant. Hardly had I raised my... | |
 | Edward Gilliat - 1911 - 414 páginas
...Abyssinia he tells us what he experienced : — " At about half-past eight I was lying half-asleep upon my bed by the margin of the river when I fancied that I heard a rumbling like distant thunder — then a confusion of voices arose from the Arabs' camp, with the sound of many feet ; in a few minutes... | |
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The cool night arrived, and at about half-past eight I was lying half asleep upon my bed by the margin of the river, when I fancied that I heard a rumbling like distant thunder ; I had not heard such a sound for months, but a low, uninterrupted roll appeared... 