Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Nile and Its Banks, Vol. 2 of 2: A Journal of Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Showing Their Attractions to the Archeologist, the Naturalist, and General Tourist
In the afternoon a crowd of Nubians, including the three Cataract sheikhs came on board, and im mediately we cast ofi' our moorings, and sailed with a gentle breeze through the granite rocks, which are here much scored 'with hieroglyphics. The Nubians quite filled our boat, squatting on the main deck and quarter-deck in all positions, and as they.
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