 | James Augustus St. John - 1832 - 446 pages
...small hollow, called Waadi-el-Halboub, and " were here at once surprised and terrified," says Bruce, "by a sight surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from west and to north-west of us we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand, at different distances,... | |
 | Theodore Edward Hook - 1832 - 480 pages
...which must have been most awful. " We were here," says he, (at a place called Woadi el Halbout,) " at once surprised and terrified by a sight, surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In the vast expanse of desert, from W. to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different... | |
 | Robert Jameson, James Wilson, Hugh Murray - 1833 - 394 pages
...— "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 west to north-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...o'clock," says he, " we alighted among some acacia trees at Waily el Halboub, having gone twentyone miles. We were here at once surprised and terrified...surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In the vast expanse of desert, from west to northwest of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1838 - 240 pages
...— jEsch. Prom. V. 1091. 2 Bruce, (as above.) " We were here at once surprised and terrified by o sight surely one of the most magnificent in the world....we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with ,° majestic slowness : at intervals we... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1838 - 266 pages
...describes as follows : "At one o'clock we alighted among some acacia trees, 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... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1838 - 702 pages
...witnessed in Arabia this year: ' At one o'clock we alighted among some acacia-trees, and were here surprised and terrified by a sight surely one of the...magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with gieat celerity,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1838 - 476 pages
...ride for many days without great fatigue.1*— Hanuay. The dreadful sand-spouts moved. — P. 154. 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 \V. and to NW of us, we saw... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1838 - 696 pages
...to ride for many days without great fatigue."— Hanway. The dreadful sand-spouts moved. — P. 154. We were here at once surprised and terrified by a sight surely the most magnificent in the world. In that vast ex. panse of desert, from \V. and to NW of us, we saw... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1839 - 516 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... | |
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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... 
