| 1879 - 530 pages
...in this distressed situation, the leader ordered some skins of water to be thrown over us. After I had received several of them over my face and hands...and looked around me without being able to discern anybody. At last, however, I distinguished seven or eight sherifs and fakeers, who gave me their assistance... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 618 pages
...Seeing us in this distressed situation, he ordered some skins of water to b« thrown over us. After I had received several of them over my face and hands,...distinguished seven or eight sherifs and fakihs who gave me (heir assistance, and shewed me much kindness. I endeavoured to speak to them, but an invincible knot... | |
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