 | John Platts - 1876 - 986 pages
...trees at Waadi el Halboub, having gone twenty-one miles. We were here at once surprised and ' Drifted by a sight, surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert from west to northwest of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times... | |
 | Charles Armar Wilkins - 1876 - 328 pages
...: "At one o'clock we alighted among some acacia trees at Wadi-elHalbout, having gone one-and-twenty miles. We were here at once surprised and terrified by a sight, and surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, west to north-west... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1879 - 304 pages
...moving sands. We alighted on the following day among some acacia trees, after travelling about twenty miles. We were here at once surprised and terrified...magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at one time moving with great... | |
 | John R. Stilgoe - 1994 - 460 pages
...ruins, his feet "very much inflamed by the burning sand." North of Wadi el Halboub, he relates, he was "at once surprised and terrified by a sight surely...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... 
