 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1802 - 346 pages
...rudely enough into another apartment. This was much better lighted than the first. Upon a large bench or sofa covered with blue Surat cloth, sat three persons, clothed from the head to the feet with blue cotton shirts. One of these whom it seems was the favourite, was about six... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Africa - 1814 - 396 pages
...rather rudely into a room, where sat, upon a sort of eofa, covered with blue Surat cloth, three women, clothed, from the neck to the feet, with blue cotton shirts. One of these was the favourite: a description of her charms will suffice to give you an idea of Nubian beauty. She... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1815 - 500 pages
...rudely enough, into another apartment, that was much better lighted than the first. Upon a large bench or sofa, covered with blue Surat cloth, sat three...high, and corpulent beyond all proportion. She seemed, next to the elephant and rhinoceros, to be the largest living creature I had met with. Her features... | |
 | Catherine Hutton - Africa - 1819 - 488 pages
...rudely enough, into another apartment. This was much better lighted than the former ; and upon a large sofa, covered with blue Surat cloth, sat three persons clothed from the neck to the feet in shirts of the same material. One of these ladies, who I found was the favourite, was about six feet... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - Ethiopia - 1830 - 582 pages
...rudely enough into another apartment. This was much better lighted than the first. Upon a large bench, or sofa, covered with blue Surat cloth, sat three...and rhinoceros, the largest living creature I had ever met with. Her features were perfectly like those of a negro ; a ring of gold passed through her... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - Ethiopia - 1840 - 398 pages
...rudely enough into another apartment. This was much better lighted than the first. Upon a large bench or sofa, covered with blue Surat cloth, sat three...and rhinoceros, the largest living creature I had ever met with. Her features were perfectly like those of a negro ; a ring of gold passed through her... | |
 | Francis Bond Head - Africa, North - 1844 - 586 pages
...was much better lighted than the first. Upon a large bench or sofa, covered with blue Surat cloth.sat three persons clothed from the neck to the feet with...and rhinoceros, the largest living creature I had ever met with. Her features were perfectly like those of a negro ; a ring of gold passed through her... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - Bible - 1845 - 494 pages
...wife of the king of Nubia, he gives the following description of her ornaments. " She was," he writes, "about six feet high, and corpulent beyond all proportion....and rhinoceros, the largest living creature I had ever met with... A ring of gold passed through her under lip, and weighed it down, till, like a flap,... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - Ethiopia - 1859 - 402 pages
...rudely enough into another apartment. This was much better lighted than the first. Upon a large bench or sofa, covered with blue Surat cloth, sat three...of these, who I found was the favourite, was about «ix feet high, and corpulent beyond all proportion. She seemed to me, next to the elephant and rhinoceros,... | |
 | James Bruce - Egypt - 1860 - 442 pages
...lighted than the first. Upon a large bench or sofa, covered with blue Surat cloth, sat three women, clothed from the neck to the feet with blue cotton...seemed to me, next to the elephant and rhinoceros, to be the largest living creature I had met with. Her features were perfectly like those of a negro.... | |
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I was musing whether or not these all might be queens, or whether there was any queen among them, one of them took me by the hand and led me rudely enough into another apartment. This was much better lighted than the first. Upon a large bench, or sofa,... 
