 | 1802 - 572 pages
...north. At one o'clock we alighted among some acacia trees at Waadi el Halboub, having gr.ne twenty-one miles. We were here at once surprised and terrified by a sight surely one of the most magnificent in tie world. In that vast expanse of desert, from VV. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious... | |
 | John Boyd Greenshields - 1800 - 174 pages
...o'clock, (says Bruce), we alighted among some acacia trees at Waadi el Halboub, having gone twenty-one miles. We were here at once surprised and terrified,...in the world. In that vast expanse of Desert from west to north-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand, at different distances ; at... | |
 | 1802 - 572 pages
...north. At one o'clock we alighted among some acacia trees at Waadi el Halboub, having gone twenty-one miles. We were here at once surprised and terrified...in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from \V. and to NW of us, •we saw a number of prodigious fillars pf sand at different distances, at times... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1802 - 346 pages
...his lad, who had lances, the only arms they could use. D d 2 BRUCE'S TRAVELS. On the 14th, they were at once surprised and terrified by a sight surely...magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of (lesart, from west to the north-west of them, they saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1804 - 444 pages
...north. At one o'clock we alighted among some acacia trees at Waadi el Halboub, having gone twenty.one miles. We were here at once surprised and terrified...in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from \V. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars ofsandiit different distances, at times... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1804 - 440 pages
...north. At one o'clock we alighted among some acacia trees at Waadi el Halboub, having gone twenty-one miles. We were here at once surprised and terrified...the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1807 - 438 pages
...north. At one o'clock we alighted among some acacia trees at Waadi el Halboub, having gone twenty-one miles. We were here at once surprised and terrified...the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving... | |
 | Henry Robertson (M.D.) - 1808 - 452 pages
...: " Atone o'clock we alighted among some accasia trees at Waadi el Halboub, having gone twenty-one miles. We were here at once surprised and terrified,...in the world. In that vast expanse of desert from west to nor th-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand, at different distances, at... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1809 - 288 pages
...enabled to ride for many days without great fatigue." — Hanway. The dreadful columns mov'd.—P. 189. We were here at once surprised and terrified by a sight surely the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1812 - 442 pages
...north. At one o'clock we alighted among some acacia trees at Waadi el Halboub, having gone twenty-one miles. We were here at once surprised and terrified by a sight surely one oflhemostmagnificientin the World. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw... | |
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We were here at once surprised and terrified by a sight surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with... 
