Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and the Holy Land: Including a Journey Round the Dead Sea, and Through the Country East of the Jordan
Sackey is the Persian wheel with which they raise water from the river; it is described by Burckhardt, Noreen, and other travellers.
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