Autumn Rambles in North AfricaLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864 - 298 pages |
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absinthe Ain Beïda Algeria Algiers animal appearance Arab Atlas Auress Barbary Batna Bedouin Beni Mansour bernous Biskara boar Bona café called camels camp caravanserai Carthage chance Cheret Christian coast Constantina diligence Djebel Djurdjura El Tarf European fact fancy feet feshtall French garden Goletta grey Guelma Herodotus hills horse hyæna journey Kabyle kaïd Kantra kous-kous Krenchela Lambessa least lion lion-hunting look Marseilles Medjana ment miles Mitlili morning Morocco mountain mule neighbourhood Nememshah night North Africa oasis panther pass perhaps Philippeville plain pleasant race ramble ravine region ride ridge road rock Roman round route ruins saddle Sahara scenery seemed seen Setif side sort spahis spot stand steamer streets stretching summit Tebessa tents thing tourist town traveller trees tribe Tunis turned valley village wall wild
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Page 35 - Wild wind ! I seek a warmer sky, And I will see before I die The palms and temples of the South.
Page 153 - Returning suns and double seasons t pass: Rocks rich in gems, and mountains big with mines, That on the high equator ridgy rise, Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays : Majestic woods, of every vigorous green, Stage above stage, high waving o'er the hills ; Or to the far horizon wide diffus'd, A boundless deep immensity of shade.
Page 199 - Our attempts here show what a Will-o'-the-wisp kind of pursuit this sport is. The first night we selected a spot where the traces of the panther were numerous and fresh. It was a well-known place, too, evidently; for up in a tree hard by was one of the nests the Arabs build for themselves when ¡they try for a lion or a panther. But nothing visited us, nor did we hear anything except the chattering of the apes, and once, miles away among the hills, a deep moaning sound, which swelled gradually into...
Page 173 - ... about the expression of his rather handsome features, as if he were trying to catch some low distant sound. Cheret's history curiously illustrated the fascinations of lionhunting. One night, three or four years ago, he was alone in the woods, watching for a shot at a tiger-cat, or...
Page 205 - Who will be averse to the religion of Abraham, but he whose mind is infatuated? Surely we have chosen him in this world, and in that which is to come he shall be one of the righteous. When his Lord said unto him, Resign thyself unto me; he answered, I have resigned myself unto the Lord of all creatures. And Abraham bequeathed this religion to his children...
Page 183 - ... penetrate ; and the slightest movement on your part will clear up the doubt which is now agitating his mind. With a young and inexperienced lion, perhaps, it does not so much matter ; but if it be an old and wary bird, who has been wounded once or twice, he will know the meaning of a crouching figure, with a gun on its knee, and will take another path, so the hunters say ; or he will fall upon you and rend you, say the books. Quien sabe ? At any rate, scratching your nose is not to be done unconsiderately...
Page 181 - ... through the open doorway. The moonlight falling softly on his meagre carcass, cast no shadow worth speaking of; and he might have passed for a spectre come to warn, but too well mannered to intrude, were it not for the persistent cough which proclaimed him mortal. When at last we made a move M. С declared it was far too late to think of going up the mountain, and that we had better try the plain near the river, and take our chance of such game as might pass. The fact was, I suspect, that although...