The Great Sahara: Wanderings South of the Atlas MountainsJ. Murray, 1860 - 435 páginas |
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... light marble columns supporting the arcade of the street in front , but without the great dome which relieves the other mosque . The arches of the interior are partly Saracenic and partly semicircular . Europeans and even females are ...
... light marble columns supporting the arcade of the street in front , but without the great dome which relieves the other mosque . The arches of the interior are partly Saracenic and partly semicircular . Europeans and even females are ...
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... light pillared arches in antique arabesque supporting a cloister round it , and a verandah above , over whose balustrades a row of veiled Moorish women were leaning and gazing down on the scene below . The floor of the centre was paved ...
... light pillared arches in antique arabesque supporting a cloister round it , and a verandah above , over whose balustrades a row of veiled Moorish women were leaning and gazing down on the scene below . The floor of the centre was paved ...
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... lights . Meanwhile he had been anti- cipated in his excitement by a little boy in the rear , whom we had noticed on the stairs behind , for the last twenty minutes , gradually working himself into an ecstacy , rolling his head and ...
... lights . Meanwhile he had been anti- cipated in his excitement by a little boy in the rear , whom we had noticed on the stairs behind , for the last twenty minutes , gradually working himself into an ecstacy , rolling his head and ...
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... light even in the best arranged expedition , yet , after the halt , were not sorry to find ourselves once more in the saddle , with no inten- tion of resting again till we should have crossed the Atlas . The road follows the old Roman ...
... light even in the best arranged expedition , yet , after the halt , were not sorry to find ourselves once more in the saddle , with no inten- tion of resting again till we should have crossed the Atlas . The road follows the old Roman ...
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... light and fleet as that of the English racehorse , yet more muscular and graceful . With such saddles the riders seemed as secure as in a chair . Some would drop their weapons , and wheeling round recover them from the ground as they ...
... light and fleet as that of the English racehorse , yet more muscular and graceful . With such saddles the riders seemed as secure as in a chair . Some would drop their weapons , and wheeling round recover them from the ground as they ...
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