ISBN: 1231185503

[SR: 2305526], Paperback, [EAN: 9781231185506], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and miss… More...

[SR: 2305526], Paperback, [EAN: 9781231185506], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ... the deck. But their patience was on the ebb, and while I considered what to do next, I felt the Rob Roy heaving this way and that, and then gradually, and despite all my smiling but earnest remonstrance, the canoe began to rise out of the water with all her crew. Loud shouts welcomed her ascent up the bank as a dozen dark-skinned bearers lifted the canoe and her captain, sitting inside, with all duo dignity graciously smiling, and so they carriod her fairly up the steep bank and over the smooth sward some hundred yards towards the tent of their Arab sheikh. See this strange progress depicted in the frontispiece of our volume, and it may safely be said that no prisoner before was ever thus taken into custody. But it was an anxious journey this from river to tent. The men were rough and boisterous. The boat heeled and plunged as if in a terrible sea. I clasped the two nearest bearers round their necks to steady these surgings. Then they let tho boat down while I clung to their clammy cheeks and swarthy shoulders, and I had soon to loose hold of these and descend to the ground with the Rob Roy, for I would never desert her. Up aloft again! and laughing and shouting we waddled along, while the crowd was denser than ever, until the sheikh came slowly to meet us with a few of his ancient councillors. I insisted that the canoe should be placed in his tent. After much resistance he suddenly allowed it, and. then I got out. But what to do next? The first thing to recollect in this sort of adventure is that time is of no consequence to such people, but that stage effect and dignity are very important to your case. Therefore I made long preliminaries, and ordered every person out of the tent. The crowd obeyed, after some had been beaten with sticks to compel them. Th..., 4878, Egypt, 4873, Ancient Civilizations, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 16730, General, 16703, Africa, 27, Travel, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 17181, General, 17175, Middle East, 27, Travel, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 17029, Travel Writing, 27, Travel, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 1231185503

[SR: 2305531], Paperback, [EAN: 9781231185506], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and miss… More...

[SR: 2305531], Paperback, [EAN: 9781231185506], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ... the deck. But their patience was on the ebb, and while I considered what to do next, I felt the Rob Roy heaving this way and that, and then gradually, and despite all my smiling but earnest remonstrance, the canoe began to rise out of the water with all her crew. Loud shouts welcomed her ascent up the bank as a dozen dark-skinned bearers lifted the canoe and her captain, sitting inside, with all duo dignity graciously smiling, and so they carriod her fairly up the steep bank and over the smooth sward some hundred yards towards the tent of their Arab sheikh. See this strange progress depicted in the frontispiece of our volume, and it may safely be said that no prisoner before was ever thus taken into custody. But it was an anxious journey this from river to tent. The men were rough and boisterous. The boat heeled and plunged as if in a terrible sea. I clasped the two nearest bearers round their necks to steady these surgings. Then they let tho boat down while I clung to their clammy cheeks and swarthy shoulders, and I had soon to loose hold of these and descend to the ground with the Rob Roy, for I would never desert her. Up aloft again! and laughing and shouting we waddled along, while the crowd was denser than ever, until the sheikh came slowly to meet us with a few of his ancient councillors. I insisted that the canoe should be placed in his tent. After much resistance he suddenly allowed it, and. then I got out. But what to do next? The first thing to recollect in this sort of adventure is that time is of no consequence to such people, but that stage effect and dignity are very important to your case. Therefore I made long preliminaries, and ordered every person out of the tent. The crowd obeyed, after some had been beaten with sticks to compel them. Th..., 4878, Egypt, 4873, Ancient Civilizations, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 16730, General, 16703, Africa, 27, Travel, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 17181, General, 17175, Middle East, 27, Travel, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 17029, Travel Writing, 27, Travel, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 9781231185506

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