Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 24, 2025
"It was to this landing-place that we first directed our attention, anchoring the brig and schooner off the guns of Fort Ingles on the afternoon of February the 3rd, amidst a swell which rendered immediate disembarkation impracticable.
No sooner had we got fairly into the station than the car was invaded by a crowd of Porters touting for employment. They are all dressed in white, and wear red caps, on which is a brass number, by means of which they are easily recognised. The landlord from the Hotel Ingles, M. Tellier, met us, and we at once drove off, leaving our luggage to follow, in charge of one of the red-capped gentlemen.
Hillyard had not wasted his time during those three years when he loafed and worked about the quays of Southern Spain. He touched the right chord now with an unerring skill. Hillyard might be the mad Englishman, the loco Inglés! But to be reckoned by one of them as one of them here was an insidious flattery which no one of José Medina's upbringing could possibly resist.
"Look at young Davies makin' an ass of himself over mutton-dressed-as-lamb old enough to be his mother!" "No one can accuse young Cottar of runnin' after women, white or black," the major replied thoughtfully. "But, then, that's the kind that generally goes the worst mucker in the end." "Not Cottar. I've only run across one of his muster before a fellow called Ingles, in South Africa.
Then she looked up at him in wonder, for Pen raised his in turn, as he exclaimed, "Don't run away. I want your help." The girl shook her head. "Ingles." "Si, si, Ingles, Ingles. Don't go. I won't hurt you." "Si, si, Ingles," said the girl with some animation now. "Ah, she understands that!" thought Pen; and then aloud, "Help! Wounded!" and he pointed at the open door.
"Wouldn't it be a good idea to have entertainments and things, to bring the different sections of society together? I should be very glad to help," she added, as she debated the probable participation of Susan Bates and Cecilia Ingles. "No, I'm not going to have any picnic business," returned Jane. "That's all nonsense. I'm going to keep this thing within its own lines."
The principal forts on the western shore are placed in the following order: El Ingles, San Carlos, Amargos, Chorocomayo Alto, and Corral Castle. Those on the eastern side are Niebla, directly opposite Amargos, and Piojo; whilst on the island of Manzanera is a strong fort mounted with guns of large calibre, commanding the whole range of the entrance channel.
Soon after my arrival at Tangier, the English letter-boat, Carreo Ingles, master, Matteo Attalya, brought twelve eunuch slaves, African youths, from Gibraltar. They are a present from the Viceroy of Egypt to the Emperor of Morocco. The Correo is the weekly bearer of letters and despatches to and from Morocco.
"Everywhere even in daylight, even on the sunniest of mornings were dark shadows that hung around the ingles and recesses of the rooms, the deep cupboards, the passages, and silent, winding staircases. "There was one corridor long, low, vaulted where these shadows assembled in particular.
The Blood-letting of plethoric Placemen. The Posada. Ingles and Benoliel. Amulets for successful parturition. Visits of a Moorish Taleb and a Berber. Three Sundays during a week in Barbary. M. Rey's account of the Empire of Morocco. The Government Auctioneer gives an account of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Morocco. Benoliel as English Cicerone. Departure from Tangier to Gibraltar.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking