The Great Sahara: Wanderings South of the Atlas MountainsJ. Murray, 1860 - 435 páginas |
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Africa Agha Aïn Algeria Algiers Arab arrived Atlas barley basin Bedouin Beni Isguen Berber Berryan birds Biskra Boghar burnous camels camp caravan caravanserai carpet cavaliers centre Chaamba Chott coffee colour convoy Coss dark dates dayats descended Desf Djebel Djelfa djemmâa Djidi El Kantara falcon Family feet French gardens gazelle Ghardaïa Guerrara halt Hauts Plateaux hills horses inhabitants journey Kabyles kadi khalifat kouskousou Laghouat limestone M'zab M'zab Desert marabout mekhasni miles morning Morocco mosque mountain mounted Mozabites N'ça N'goussa native negro never night nomads oases oasis Omar palm palm-groves palm-trees passed Reboud ride ridge rock rocky rode Roman round saddle Sahara Salt plains sand scarcely sehaurs sheik side Sidi soon Souf southern spahi spec species stones tent tion Touareg Touat traces traveller trees tribes Tuggurt Tunis walls Waregla Wed R'hir whole yards
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Página 16 - Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Página 96 - The best trees are those produced from slipped plants. Those from seed are much longer in arriving at maturity, and are generally poor. When the slip, taken from the foot of the stem of an adult tree, is first planted, it must be watered daily for six weeks, and every other day for the next six weeks, after which the trees are watered once a week in summer, and every month in winter. They begin to bear when eight or ten years old, being then about seven feet high. Each year the lowest ring of leaves...
Página 117 - So wary is the bird, and so open are the vast plains over which it roams, that no ambuscades or artifices can be employed, and the vulgar resource of dogged perseverance is the only mode of pursuit. The horses...
Página 118 - The hunters set forth with small skins of water strapped under their horses' bellies, and a scanty allowance of food for four or five days distributed judiciously about their saddles. The Ostrich generally lives in companies of from four to six individuals, which do not appear to be in the habit, under ordinary circumstances, of wandering more than twenty or thirty miles from their head-quarters.
Página 238 - ... throughout the immense range of the Argentine republic. Looking to the Old World, in the Sahara Desert " The " Touareg is as careful in the selection of his breeding Mahari " (a fine race of the dromedary) as the Arab is in that of his " horse. The pedigrees are handed down, and many a drome" dary can boast a genealogy far longer than the descendants
Página 200 - Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD.
Página 84 - He shall feed His flock like a shepherd : He shall gather the lambs with His arms, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Página 64 - ... houbara, and which I observed on this occasion. As the hawk approaches the houbara ejects both from the mouth and vent a slimy fluid. A well-trained bird eludes this shower by repeated feints, until the quarry's supply of moisture is exhausted. An impatient one rushes in, and gets his whole plumage so bedaubed that his flight is materially impeded, and his swoop when made is irresolute.
Página 117 - ... is the greatest feat of hunting to which the Saharan sportsman aspires, and in richness of booty it ranks next to the plunder of a caravan. So great is the cost and toil of the chase, that it is generally estimated the capture of an ostrich cannot be effected without the loss of a horse or two. So wary is the bird, and so vast are the plains over which it roams, that no artifices or ambuscades can be of any avail. The only resource is to pursue them with dogged perseverance, and for this work...
Página 238 - The training of these white dromedaries, as the French term them, is among the " noble mysteries " of the desert ; and certainly the mahari, so far as my own observation goes, is rendered obedient to the word of command, and lies down, turns, rises, quickens or slackens its pace, as no other camel is taught, at the voice of its rider.