The Anglo-Indian passage homeward and outward; or, A card for the overland traveller from Southampton to Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta

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Página 125 - I cast one look upon the senseless body, and saw the feet laid open in gashes, and the blood streaming down the legs. At that moment the bars were taken away, and the mangled feet fell like lead upon the floor. I had to work my way through the crowd, and before I could escape I saw the poor fellow revive, and by the first natural impulse rise upon his feet, but fall again as if he had stepped upon red-hot irons. He crawled upon his hands and knees to the door of the hall, and here...
Página 124 - Turks, to the lower regions ; but it was all important not to offend this summary dispenser of justice, and I never made a greater sacrifice of feeling to expediency, than when I re-entered his presence. The shrieks of the unhappy criminal were ringing through the chamber, but the governor received me with as calm a smile as if he had been sitting on his own divan, listening only to the strains of some pleasant music, while I stood with my teeth...
Página 15 - I have taken," said Amrou to the caliph, "the great city of the West. It is impossible for me to enumerate the variety of its riches and beauty; and I shall content myself with observing, that it contains four thousand palaces, four thousand baths, four hundred theatres or places of amusement, twelve thousand shops for the sale of vegetable food, and forty thousand tributary Jews.
Página 124 - I stood with my teeth clinched, and felt the hot breath of the victim, and heard the whizzing of the accursed whip, as it fell again and again upon his bleeding feet. I have heard men cry out in agony when the sea was raging, and the drowning man, rising for the last time upon the mountain waves, turned his imploring arms towards us, and with his dying breath called in vain for help; but I never heard such heartrending sounds as those from the poor bastinadoed wretch before me. I thought the governor...
Página 136 - ... first which the traveller beholds on approaching the city. Ascending a long flight of steps, and passing under a magnificent doorway, we entered the vestibule, and proceeded towards the sacred portion of the edifice ; where, on stepping over a small railing, it was necessary to take oif our babooshes, or red Turkish shoes.
Página 7 - SELECTIONS FROM THE KUR-AN, commonly called in England, THE KORAN, with an interwoven commentary, translated from the Arabic, methodically arranged, and illustrated by notes, chiefly from Sale's edition. To which is prefixed, an Introduction, taken from Sale's Preliminary Discourse, with corrections and additions. By EDWARD WILLIAM LANE, Author of " The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians...
Página 98 - Near me sat a bright-haired boy Whistling with a thoughtless joy. A shepherd's crook was in his hand, Emblem of a mild command ; And upon his rounded cheek Were hues that ripened apples streak. Disease, nor pain, nor sorrowing Touched that small Arcadian king. His sinless subjects wandered free, — Confusion without anarchy. Happier he upon his throne, — The breezy hill, though all alone, — Than the grandest...
Página 7 - ANCIENT EGYPT. Her monuments, hieroglyphics, history, and archaeology, and other subjects connected with hieroglyphical literature. By George R. Gliddon, late United States Consul at Cairo.
Página 85 - How fitfully the struggling day-beams pierce The veil of heaven ! On yon far line of light, That like a range of breakers streaks the main, The ocean swan — the snow-white albatross, Gleams like a dazzling foam-flake in the sun ! — Gaze upward — and behold, where parted clouds Disclose ethereal depths, its dark-hued mate Hangs motionless on arch-resembling wings, As though 'twere painted on the sky's blue vault. Sprinkling the air, the speck-like...
Página 15 - I shall content myself with observing, that it contains four thousand palaces, four thousand baths, four hundred theatres or places of amusement, twelve thousand shops for the sale of vegetable food, and forty thousand tributary Jews. The town has been subdued by force of arms, without treaty or capitulation, and the Moslems are impatient to seize the fruits of their victory.

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