| John Boyd Greenshields - 1800 - 174 pages
...danger; and the full persuasion of this, rivetted me as if to the spot where I stood. "—" The same appearance of moving pillars of sand presented themselves...form and disposition like those we had seen at Waadi cl Halboub ; only they seemed to be more in number, and less in size. They came several times in a... | |
| Henry Robertson (M.D.) - 1808 - 452 pages
...full conviction of this, ri vetted me as if to the spot where I stood." Again he remarks, " The same appearance of moving pillars of sand presented themselves to us this day; in form and position like those we had seen at Waadi el Haiboub, only they seemed to be more in number and less... | |
| Robert Southey - 1809 - 292 pages
...where I stood. Un the 15th, the same appearance of moving pillars of sand presented themselves to us, only they seemed to be more in number, and less in...They came several times in a direction close upon as ; that is, I believe, within less than two miles. They began immediately after sun-rise, like a... | |
| James Bruce - 1813 - 584 pages
...till we alighted at the foot of the mountain Del Aned. The place is called Waadi Del Aned. The same appearance of moving pillars of sand presented themselves...They came several times in a direction close upon us ; that is, I believe, within less than two miles. They began, immediately after sun-rise, like a... | |
| Robert Southey - 1814 - 304 pages
...appearance of moving pillars of »and presented themselves to us, only they seemed to he more in numher, and less in size. They came several times in a direction close upon us ; that is, I helieve, within less than two miles. They hegan immediately after sun-rise, like a... | |
| Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 588 pages
...this danger ; and the fnll persuasion of this rivettfd me as if to the spot where I stood. " The same appearance of moving pillars of sand presented themselves...form and disposition like those we had seen at Waadi Ualbouh, only they seemed to be more in number and less in she. They came several times in a direction... | |
| 1815 - 500 pages
...the mouth of the girba, which we found in the morning with scarce a quart of water in it. The same appearance of moving pillars of sand presented themselves...this day, in form and disposition like those we had previously seen, only they seemed to be more in number, and less in size. They came several times in... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pages
...this danger ; and the full persuasion of this rivetted me as if to the spot wher* I stood. The same appearance of moving pillars of sand presented themselves...form and disposition like those we had seen at Waadi el Halboub, only they seemed to be more in number and less in size. They came several times in a direction... | |
| R. P. Forster - 1818 - 508 pages
...the face. ' Two days after this, the same appearance of moving pillars of sand presented themselves, only they seemed to be more in number, and less in size. They came several times in a diVoL. III. B 10 BRUCE'S TRAVELS. rection close upon us ; that is, I believe, within less than two... | |
| Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 592 pages
...this danger; and the full persuasion of this rivetted me as if to the spot where I stood. " The same appearance of moving pillars of sand presented themselves...They came several times in a direction close upon us, that is, I believe, within less than two miles. They began immediately after sunrise like a thick... | |
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