| Samuel Burder - 1807 - 436 pages
...the board into a calabash with a little water ; and having said a few, prayers over it, drank this powerful draught : after which, lest a single word...escape, he licked the board until it was quite dry." Travels, p. 236. No. 722. — vi. 5. And shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.'} The Egyptians... | |
| Mungo Park - 1807 - 594 pages
...from the board into a calabash with a little water, and having said a few prayers over it, drank this powerful draught ; after which, lest a single word should escape, he licked the bXoaft until it was quite dry. A saphie writer was a man of too great consequence to be long concealed... | |
| Samuel Burder - 1812 - 428 pages
...from the board into a calabash with a little water ; and having said a few prayers over it, drank this powerful draught : after which, lest a single word...escape, he licked the board until it was quite dry." Travels, p. 236. No. 722. — vi. 5. And shall let the locks of the hair1 of his head grow.] The Egyptians... | |
| Mungo Park - 1813 - 374 pages
...from the board into a calabash with a little water, and having said a few prayers over it, drank this powerful draught ; after which, lest a single word...escape, he licked the board until it was quite dry. A saphie writer was a man of too great consequence to be long concealed ; the important information... | |
| Augustin Calmet - 1814 - 636 pages
...from the board into a calabash, with a little water, and having said a few prayers over it, drank this powerful draught ; after which, lest a single word...escape, he licked the board until it was quite dry," M. Park, p. 236. Here we find the sentiments expressed in writing are supposed tobe communicated to... | |
| R. P. Forster - 1818 - 508 pages
...from the hoard into a calabash with a little water, and having said a few prayers over it, drank this powerful draught; after which, lest a single word...escape, he licked the board until it was quite dry. Information of this circumstance being carried to the governor, he sent his son with half a sheet of... | |
| William Carpenter - 1827 - 506 pages
...into a calabash, with a littlf water, and having said a few prayers over it, drank VOL. ii. 2 E thii powerful draught; after which, lest a single word...escape, he licked the board until it was quite dry." Mungo Park, 2S6. Here we find the sentiments expressed in writing are supposed to be communicated to... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 814 pages
...the board into a calabash with a little waler ; and, having said a few prayers over it, drank this powerful draught; after which, lest a single word...escape, he licked the board until it was quite dry. A saphie writer was a man of too great consequence to be long concealed. The important information... | |
| Augustin Calmet - 1832 - 1060 pages
...into a calabash, with a little water, ami having said a few prayers over it, drank this now---- nil draught ; after which, lest a single word should escape, he licked the board until it was quite dry." (Page 236.) Here we find the sentiments expressed in writing supposed to be communicated to water ;... | |
| John Graham Dalyell - 1834 - 722 pages
...African, to be assured of its full force, washed off the writing into a vessel, and drank the water: " after which, lest a single word should escape, he licked the board."* On similar principles, the benefit of absorbing a charm is believed, in Africa, to have yet a wider... | |
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