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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesabundance Aden animals appears Arabia Felix Arabs Archipelago arrived Barbosa beautiful Bengala Brahmins Calicut called camels Canonor captain caravan castle century Ceylon CHAPTER CONCERNING Christians coast colour companion Crawfurd custom Damascus describes distant district ducats El-Medinah elephants Ethiopia five four fruit give gold Gulf hand Herat Hijaz hundred Ibn Batuta India inhabitants island Java jewels journey Kaabah killed kind king king of Portugal kingdom latter lord Mahomet Malabar Malacca Malay Mamelukes manner Mecca mentioned merchants miles Moorish Moors mosque mountain Muhammed Muhammedan Mussulman Narsinga native navigation Pagans Pegu Persian Pinkerton's Voyages port Portugal Portuguese probably quantity Ralph Fitch Ramusio remained remarks river sail Sanaa says ships Siam silk situated stones Sultan Sumatra Syria Tarnassari Tenasserim Thornton's Gazetteer thou tion town trade traveller tree Varthema vessels Viceroy visited walls wear Yemen Zamorin Popular passagesPage 217 - and the new. In the old town are all the merchants strangers, and very many merchants of the country. All the goods are sold in the old town, which is very great, and hath many suburbs round about it, and all the houses are made of canes, which they call Page vi - Itinerario De Ludouico De Verthema Bolognese ne lo Egypto ne la Suria ne la Arabia Deserta & Felice ne la Persia ne la India : & ne la Ethiopia La fede el uiuere & costumi de tutte le prefate prouincie. Nouamente impresso. Page 45 - And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned him with fire after they had stoned him with stones. And they raised over him a great heap of stones UNTO THIS DAY. Page 250 - Io mi volsi a man destra, e posi mente AH' altro polo, e vidi quattro stelle Non viste mai, fuor eh' alla prima gente. Goder pareva '1 Ciel di lor Page cv - actuated, and of a zeal for God which, if not according to knowledge, was a zeal still, and a sincere one. It was painful to me, at the time, to think, how few relics, if the English were now expelled from India, would be left behind of their religion, their power, or their civil and military magnificence. Page 192 - where he found and knew his wife, the mountain being thence named Arafat ; and that he afterwards retired with her to Ceylon, where they continued to propagate their species. " It may not be improper here to mention another tradition concerning the gigantic stature of our first parents. Their prophet, they say, affirmed Adam to Page 27 - or, as others say, by strong planking. Whatever this material may be, it is hung outside with a curtain, somewhat like a large four-post bed. The outer railing is separated by a dark narrow passage from the inner one, which it surrounds, and is of iron filagree, painted of a vivid grass green, Page 36 - rises on the north-east side of the plain, close to the mountains which encompass it, but separated from them by a rocky valley. It is about a mile or a mile and a half in circuit : its sides are sloping, and its summit is nearly two hundred feet above the level of the plain... On the Page 148 - Security and justice are so firmly established in this city, that the most wealthy merchants bring thither from maritime countries considerable cargoes, which they unload, and unhesitatingly send into the market and Page 43 - After the long and sultry afternoon, beasts of burden began to sink in considerable numbers. The fresh carcases of asses, ponies, and camels, dotted the wayside : those that had been allowed to die were abandoned to the foul carrion-birds, the Rakham (vulture), and the yellow Ukab ; and References from web pagesSouth Seas Companion Details - Book Bibliographic information
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