Adventures in Tripoli: A Doctor in the DesertP. Allan & Company, 1924 - 298 páginas |
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Adventures in Tripoli: A Doctor in the Desert Ernest Harrison Griffin Sin vista previa disponible - 1984 |
Términos y frases comunes
able Ajilat anxious apéritif appeared Arabs arms army arrived asked Assa backsheesh Bahrouni Bechoul Ben-Gardane Billal blanket bottle Boudelblous British called camel-drivers camels camp Captain Captain X caravan carried crowd desert dinner Djemel doctor drink Effendi El Yefren enemy eyes face Fezzan fire flint-lock floor French frontier gave gendarmes give Hadj halt Hammam hand heard hills horses hospital Italian journey Khalifa Khani large number leave little Sambo looked meal Mission Mohammed morning Moslem Mustapha night oasis officers Ottoman Ottoman Empire passed patient proved Rapta Red Crescent refused ride rifle road rode round Saad saddle sand seemed Selim Sfax Sheikh Sassi shouting sleep soldiers soon sort suffering tent thing thought tired told took town Tripoli Tripolitana Tunis Tunisia Turkish Turkish Red Crescent Turks turned walk wish wounded Yefren Zavia
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Página 200 - Humility, patience, gentleness, refinement of speech, giving good for evil, truthfulness, fidelity, sympathy, respect for poverty and misfortune, care for orphans, attention to the sick, condolence with the bereaved, the suppression of such passions as envy, malice, the desire to defame, are all eloquently and earnestly commended
Página 61 - ... treated military invalids only. Daily the little tents were thronged with sufferers from ophthalmia and sores and old diseases. Mothers came bringing ailing children, men who had suffered long came confident of help, and always received it. They lost their terror of the knife when in the surgery tent they saw tumours and ulcerous growths removed without a sign of pain. Against ophthalmia, the curse of all lands wherein dust and flies abound, the English doctors waged a mighty war and many who...
Página 2 - Arabs in the hinterland. There was no demand on the part of these natives for a change of government. Italy had no valid cause of complaint on behalf of its few subjects who resided in the province, though it trumped up something of the kind.
Página 201 - Malaysia, it came as a great blessing, raising up savages to a state, at any rate, of semi-civilization, making them god-fearing, self-respecting, temperate, courageous and picturesque.
Página 2 - ... unprovoked attack on Tripoli. This province in Africa had never been autonomous. It was an integral part of the Ottoman Empire, governed directly from Constantinople. Its population was purely Moslem — Turks and Moors in the city of Tripoli and other places on the coast, and with semiindependent Arabs in the hinterland.
Página 114 - During the night the storm raged furiously, and the howling of the wind and the beating of the rain against the windows made sleep almost impossible.
Página 167 - ... hospitality ; and towards those whom they receive as friends into their camp, every thing is open, and nothing ever known to be stolen : enter but once into the tent of an Arab, and by the pressure of his hand he ensures you protection, at the hazard of his life. An Arab is ever true to his bread and salt ; once eat with him, and a knot of friendship is tied which cannot easily be loosened. Arabs have been truly described as a distinct class of mankind. In the bashaw's dominions, they have never...
Página 107 - More than once the path was so steep that we had to dismount and lead our horses. The shades of evening had begun to deepen around us when we reached the beautiful hamlet, " navelled in woody hills," called Aboon Bashi, or the Sources of the Aboon.
Página 279 - ... trouble, as he had very good cause to be grateful to the Mission for the care we had given his son when the latter had been wounded. But the times were very troublesome and there were a lot of bad people about; moreover, all his men were with Sheikh Sauf and he could not offer us protection.
Página 283 - ... months. The sheikh told me that, so far as he knew, they were both good men, and strongly advised me to take them with me as far as the frontier, as he felt sure we should need protection on the way. I therefore agreed to give them thirty francs each and their food to take us as far as Sheikh Sauf's camp, or, in default of this, to the French frontier.