I troni e i palazzi di Babilonia e Ninive dal mare al mare; mille miglia a cavallo .. . rwe aveva messo in ordine. È stato un momento terribile. I memo-ries di una vita è venuto precipitando attraverso la mente. Dio onlypotrebbe salvarci. Ispirandosi alla forza superumana, servitore, due dei boatmen, e uno dei signori afferrò il ponte, e tenne a digiuno fino a che i remi fossero placedin acqua. Poi è venuto la lotta. Dopo uno sforzo mostdeterminato, siamo riusciti a guadagnare sul prezzo, e tirato verso la riva. Come il seamenfated, sudore, ansimò per il respiro! Se uno fallì, tutti erano andati. Ma il

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The thrones and palaces of Babylon and Ninevah from sea to sea; a thousand miles on horseback .. . rwe had capsized. It was an awful moment. The memo-ries of a life came rushing through the mind. God onlycould save us. Inspired with superhuman strength, ourservant, two of the boatmen, and one of the gentlemenseized the bridge, and held fast till the oars were placedin the water. Then came the struggle. After a mostdetermined effort, we succeeded in gaining on the cur-rent, and. pulled toward the shore. How the seamenstruggled, sweat, panted for breath ! Had one failed, wewere all gone. But there was one in the boat whosepresence of mind did not forsake her for a moment.When the danger was most imminent, Mrs. Holland keptthe other ladies from any sudden movement, and spoke brave words to the coxswain, who shook like an as-pen-leaf The captain of the Comet had been watchingus through his glass, and, blaming his men for their stu-pidity, he punished them on their return. By a bolddash they should have shot through the narrow, danger-ous passage-way beneath the bridge; and this he com-. BABYLON AND NINEVEH. 189 pelled them to do, by way of discipline for the future.While I thought them to blame, yet they had workedso hard, and I was so grateful to the kind Providencethat had saved us, that I interceded for their pardon. At the landing, we chartered the inside of a horse-rail-way car for Kathimain, which was six miles to the north-west. The top of the car was crowded with natives, whosmoked, chanted, and chatted, to their amusement and toour annoyance. The usual fare is sixpence, but we paiddouble that, for the privilege of having the inside of thecar to ourselves. This is the first railroad built in South-ern Babylonia, and has thus far proved a financial suc-cess. The contrast between traveling by rail and bycamel, horse, or donkey, is fully appreciated by the na-tives. The cars are like those used in New York, withadditional seats on the top. The track is laid along t

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• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1870
• booksubjectbabylon
• bookyear1876