The Great Sahara: Wanderings South of the Atlas MountainsJ. Murray, 1860 - 435 páginas |
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... horse - Disastrous start- Fort l'Empereur - Orphelinat him --- guard Blidah Dely Ibra- prisoners - Protestant institute ... horses- The Cheliff- Boghar - Panorama of the Sahara - Roman occupation of North Africa - Triple line of posts ...
... horse - Disastrous start- Fort l'Empereur - Orphelinat him --- guard Blidah Dely Ibra- prisoners - Protestant institute ... horses- The Cheliff- Boghar - Panorama of the Sahara - Roman occupation of North Africa - Triple line of posts ...
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... horses- Hairbreadth escape- Puits Enez - Honest - - Touareg embassy companions - Arrival at El Aghouat - CHAPTER VI . - 78 Laghouat - The view from its citadel - Carpeted roofs - Turkish bath - Storming of Laghouat - Native heroine ...
... horses- Hairbreadth escape- Puits Enez - Honest - - Touareg embassy companions - Arrival at El Aghouat - CHAPTER VI . - 78 Laghouat - The view from its citadel - Carpeted roofs - Turkish bath - Storming of Laghouat - Native heroine ...
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... horses . The decision on them I prudently left to P. , a better judge of horse- flesh than myself . The next in importance , and the most difficult to secure , was a trusty dragoman . No such skilful and ready - witted desert couriers ...
... horses . The decision on them I prudently left to P. , a better judge of horse- flesh than myself . The next in importance , and the most difficult to secure , was a trusty dragoman . No such skilful and ready - witted desert couriers ...
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... horses will prove sound , whether dragomans will prove trusty , whether promised letters will arrive , behold us at the door of the Hôtel des Ambassadeurs , equipped gallantly as John Gilpin , little anticipating a fate as ignoble . My ...
... horses will prove sound , whether dragomans will prove trusty , whether promised letters will arrive , behold us at the door of the Hôtel des Ambassadeurs , equipped gallantly as John Gilpin , little anticipating a fate as ignoble . My ...
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... horses become unmanageable , plunging till we are carried from side to side to the very brink of the precipice . The Bedouin in long line come down on us , yelling like demons , or rather , in their white burnouses , like ghosts ejected ...
... horses become unmanageable , plunging till we are carried from side to side to the very brink of the precipice . The Bedouin in long line come down on us , yelling like demons , or rather , in their white burnouses , like ghosts ejected ...
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Africa Agha Algeria Algiers ancient Arab Atlas barley Bedouin Beni Isguen Berber Berryan birds Biskra Boghar burnous camels camp caravan caravanserai carpet cavaliers centre Chaamba Chott coffee colour convoy Coss dayats descended Desert Desf Djelfa djemmâa El Kantara English falcon Family Fcap feet French gardens gazelle Ghardaïa Guerrara halt Hauts Plateaux hills History horses inhabitants journey Kabyles kadi khalifat kouskousou Laghouat M'zab marabout mekhasni miles morning Morocco mosque mountain mounted Mozabites N'goussa natives negro never night nomads oases oasis Omar palm palm-groves palm-trees passed Portrait Post 8vo Reboud ride ridge rock Roman round Sahara Salt plains sand scarcely Second Edition sehaurs sheik side Sidi soon Souf southern spahi spec species stones tent Third Edition tion Touareg Touat traces traveller trees tribes Tuggurt Tunis Vols walls Waregla Wed R'hir whole Woodcuts
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