Sinai in Spring; Or, The Best Desert in the WorldJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1911 - 167 من الصفحات |
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æther Akaba Amalek ASCENT OF JEBEL beast beauty Bedouin Bedouin boy BEDOUIN ENCAMPMENT Berber blossom boulders broad camel CAMEL-BOY Catharine Christian church colour CONVENT OF ST cypress Daoud Deir dragoman Edward Palmer FIRAN Ga'a garden gloxinia gneiss granite Greek monks Gulf of Suez hills HOSPITAL AT TOR huge Jebel Katarina Jebel Musa Jebel Serbál Jebeliyeh journey March miles Mohammed monastery morning Moses Mount Sinai mountain Nakb never night noon noon-day o'clock oasis orange palm trees Palmer pass peninsula of Sinai pilgrims plain of Er-Ráhah Prof quarantine Ras Safsáfeh Rephidim rises rocks rose round route Ruffer sacred sand seil Sheikh Ahmed SHEIKH EL ARAB Shikâri soft soon spring stood Suez SUMMIT OF JEBEL sunshine tent Towara traveller tribe vegetation Wady Firân Wady Hebrân WADY ISLÁ WADY RIMM Wady Seláf WADY SIGILLIYEH walls wilderness Wilderness of Sin Willmore
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الصفحة 69 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings
الصفحة 44 - Thou makest darkness, that it may be night ; wherein all the beasts of the forest do move. 21 The lions, roaring after their prey, do seek their meat from GOD.
الصفحة 18 - When the morning was up, they had him to the top of the house, and bid him look south; so he did; and behold, at a great distance he saw a most pleasant mountainous country, beautified with woods, vineyards, fruits of all sorts, flowers also, with springs and fountains, very delectable to behold. Then he asked the name of the country: they said it was Immanuel's Land; and it is as common, said they, as this hill is, to and for all the pilgrims.
الصفحة 1 - Sinai is a triangular peninsula situated between the two arms of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of 'Akabah, with the escarpment of the Tih plateau projecting wedgewise into it from its northern base.
الصفحة 44 - Before sleep the Bedawi says : " I lay down my head to rest, and the Lord is my security against remote evil and against present harm.
الصفحة 155 - By and by there was brought to me the fragrant tea, and big masses of scorched and scorching toast, and the butter that had come all the way to me in this Desert of Asia, from out of that poor, dear, starving Ireland. I feasted like a king, — like four kings, — like a boy in the fourth form. When the cold, sullen morning dawned, and my people began to load the camels, I always felt loath to give back to the waste this little spot of ground that had glowed for a while with the cheerfulness of...
الصفحة 44 - I seek refuge with the Great God from Satan accursed with stones *. Deliver me from evil, provide for me and for my brethren the faithful.
الصفحة 13 - Below, if the sea is quite calm, one gazes right " through the looking-glass" into a world of wonder, which no artist could portray ; strange flowers and fronds and sponges ; reefs and caves of fairyland. Every form dreamt- and undreamt-of swims in the pellucid sea atmosphere ; for the chambers of the sea are as bright as the air above. The colours are manifold, ranging from deep brown and tawny orange to sage green and soft purple. Now and again a starry promontory projects in this under-world and...
الصفحة 13 - The whole air is quivering with light and heat. Above your head stands the stainless blue vault. Below, if the sea is quite calm, one gazes right " through the looking-glass" into a world of wonder, which no artist could portray ; strange flowers and fronds and sponges ; reefs and caves of fairyland. Every form dreamt...
الصفحة 8 - I wished to take, would be useless after a day or two except as offensive weapons ; so parching is the sun and so dry the desert air.