 NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us ; and...  The Life of Bruce: The African Traveller - Seite 466von Sir Francis Bond Head - 1830 - 535 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1802 - 572 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Robertson (M.D.) - 1808 - 452 Seiten
...we alighted among some accasia trees at Waadi el Halboub, having gone twenty-one miles. We were here at once surprised and terrified, by a sight surely...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... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1812 - 442 Seiten
...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....us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand -dt different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1812 - 290 Seiten
...The dreadful columns mov'd.—P. 193. 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 VV. and to N. W. of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1814 - 304 Seiten
...The dreadful columns moo'd.—P. 196. We were here at once surprised aod terrified hy a sight surely the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a numher of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 588 Seiten
...we alighted among some acacia trees afWaadi el Halbnub, hating gone twenty.or.e miles. We were here at once surprised and terrified by a sight, surely...the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving... | |
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