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Excerpt from Sinai, the Hedjaz, and Soudan: Wanderings Around the Birth-Place of the Prophet, and Across the Ethiopian Desert From Sawakin to Chartum
I learn that after many miscarriages, the notes of a tour made by me three years ago in the countries bordering on the Red Sea have at last found their way to the printer. It is so long since I parted with them that I have but a confused recollection of their contents; but as I am sure that they were true then, I hope that they are not very unlike the truth now. The political bearings of the questions I touched, have changed since I wrote: on some subjects I.
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