Enkeldoorn that evening, we marched a few miles in the direction of Taba Insimba, and bivouacked at nightfall.
Taba Insimba (Mountain of Iron) is a long wall-like range, with a slice cut through it at one point, looking much like the canal through the Isthmus of Corinth.
The uproar of battle re-echoed through this remote mountain land and reverberated in the lonely eyries of Taba Myama.
In the panorama the most striking object was the great mountain known as Spion Kop orTaba Myama--though the latter name is applied rather to the western part of the crest and slope, and Spion Kop to the eastern summit.
With the failure to retain Spion Kop failed General Warren's attempt to cross the Spion Kop Taba Myama range, so, on the 25th, a withdrawal across the Tugela was ordered.
This baseless report led to what is known as the Taba incident (see below).
Before this force could reach Taba that place had been seized by the Turkish commandant at Akaba.
The Taba incident, to which reference has been made, arose in the beginning of 1906 over the claim of the sultan of Turkey to jurisdiction in the Sinai peninsula.
In another letter Abdi-taba explains how all the lands had concluded a bond of hostility against him, and the districts of Gezer, Askelon, and Lachish had supplied these people with food.
Abdi-taba ends with an appeal to the scribe to place the matter clearly before the king.
Moreover, the difficulty of identifying the SA-GAS with the Habiri of the inscriptions of Abdi-taba is increased by the word occurring in these texts (Winckler's No.
The narrative breaks off where Abdi-taba begins to relate something further concerning Milki-ili and another named Tagi.
Let the king hearken to Abdi-taba thy servant, and let him send hired soldiers, and let me bring back the land of the king to the king.
Egypt reached record tourism levels, despite the Taba and Nuweiba bombings in September 2004.
All day from King's Post or Waggon Hill I watched the Great Plain of Taba Nyama as usual.
Not a single man was now to be seen on Spion Kop or the rest of Taba Nyama.
A Natal paper has come in with an account of Buller's defeat at Taba Nyama on the 25th.
We saw a few shells fall on the plain at the foot of Taba Nyama, and what looked like a few on the summit.
The mass of Boers appeared to be lying under the shelter of Taba Nyama (or Intaba Mnyama--Black Mountain).
But all depends upon those parallels, so slowly advancing against Taba Nyama, and our insides are being sapped and mined far more quickly.
But I saw one of our great shells burst high up the mountain side of Taba Nyama (Black Mountain) instead of on the plain at its foot, and with that sign of forward movement I was obliged to be content.
Only four tents are left in the white string that hung down the side of Taba Nyama.
The entire interest of the day was centred on Taba Nyama--that black mountain, commanding the famous drift in its front and the stretch of plain behind.
I could see big shells bursting again on Taba Nyama and the low nek above the ford.
Shells were bursting along the ridge of Taba Nyama, on the double peaks and the Boer tents below.
The only change to-day was the steady passage of Boers westward, to concentrate afresh round Taba Nyama.
We gallop off to the kopjes straight in front of us, making for one of the highest, which is called Taba N'berg.
A group of trees in the midst of the arid yellow basin is Taba N'chu.
On the 30th, at eight o'clock, orders are given to transport our laager to the foot of the high kopjes we see four or five miles off in the direction of Taba N'chu.
The ascent of Taba N'berg by a rocky, steep, and almost precipitous incline took about thirty-five minutes.
This shoal is certainly very dangerous, but may be avoided by going to the westward of Taba Islands, where the passage is clear and broad.
On the 21st of November, as we were standing towards Borneo, we made two small islands, which I judged to be the same that in the French chart are called Taba Islands: They are very small, and covered with trees.
This plain, which is the extremity of a valley descending from the western mountain, is called Wady Taba [Arabic].
Niebuhr observes, that in the hieroglyphic WADY TABA [p.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taba" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
