 | Robert Fame Hutchinson - Bible - 1875 - 298 pages
...requirements of the case. Bruce, in his travels, met with it more than once, and thus describes it : "I saw from the South-east a haze come, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It moved very rapidly, for I scarce could turn to fall upon the ground,... | |
 | Charles Armar Wilkins - Discoveries in geography - 1876 - 328 pages
...plenty of good water, Idris, our guide, cried out with a loud voice : ' Fall on your faces — here's the simoom !' I saw from the south-east a haze come, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, hut not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1879 - 304 pages
...ourselves with plenty of good water. As we were advancing, Idris suddenly cried out, " Fall upon your faces, for here is the simoom!" I saw from the south-east...come, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904 - 606 pages
...(nichnamed " Abyssinian Bruce "), gives a remarkable description of the simoom : " I saw from the soulh-east a haze come, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet... | |
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I saw from the southeast a haze come, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind of blush upon the air, and it... 
