God! I offer to thee instead of my own offspring, life for life, blood for blood, head for head, bone for bone, hair for hair, skin for skin. In the name of the Great God - Page 285
that the people of Darfoor have marched with an army to take Kordofan, which, it is apprehended, they soon will do, being about 12,000 horse, and an infinite number of foot. There are at Kordofan about 1500 horse, with Mahomet Abou Calec; who, it is thought, will fall back on Sennaar, if not surrounded.... - Page 412
Since our departure from the Egyptian territory, his country had been invaded by a large force, according to orders sent from the GovernorGeneral of the Soudan. Mek Nimmur as usual retreated to the mountains, but Mai Gubba and a number of his villages were utterly destroyed by the Egyptians - Page 429
a term used for those rules and ordinances of religion which are said to have been established and enjoined by God Himself, as distinguished from those which are established upon the precept or practice of the Prophet, and which are called - Page 296
established by Muhammad himself. ... It consists of a sacrifice to God, in the name of the child, of two he-goats for a boy, and one he-goat for a girl. - Page 285
A king of the name of Abli Calik is the idol of the people of Kordofan where he reigned about fourteen years ago and is renowned for probity and justice. - Page 412
have created you of male and female and made you races and tribes that ye might know one another. Verily the noblest of you in - Page 124
This man was a rather exaggerated specimen of Turkish authorities in general, combining the worst of oriental failings with the brutality of a wild animal - Page 429
When we had almost past over the Court, they oblig'd us to stop short before a Stone, which is near to an open Hall, where the King usually gives Audience to Embassadors. - Page 409
As a desert patriarch he was superb, the very perfection of all that the imagination could paint, if we would personify Abraham at the head of his people - Page 426
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