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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 353
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the to the next saloon baking from * . the The burning dark faces rays , around to obtain appeared a little time to us to many cool , shades before
lighter ; the white ones had begun to peel . So accustomed was the eye shoes becoming and whit to bare e stockings -footed began servants to , look that quite Thomas out ' s of shinin character g patent : and leather as for
had our faithful serious Sarah fears , lest she she entered intended so heartil wearin y g into an Arab the whole comp concern lexion , , speaking that we Mohamed the language el Adleeh of the ! . country ' It would fluentl not y , and have finall sounded y becoming badly , ; p but erhap Sarah s , ' Mr was s , .
far too wise for that . " . As tlie Dahabeeh slowly made its way up to tlie second cataract ,
we read of all the little Incidents which broke the monotony of ineir daily life on board—walks upon the Nile bank—sketching :
expeditions and visits to remarkable places . We do not remember to have seen in any other work upon
Egypt any illustration equal to tnat representing the view from the rock of Abousir . The description may convey some idea of the
"wild beauty of the scene . dicul 46 And arly on now the we bank left the overlooking boat . The the rock black of and Abousir green rose porp almost hyry rocks perpen of
the could Cat mount aracts it . ? How I looked was first it possible at the rock that _, ' then Cousin at the Phil invalids / or even , in dismay Selina ; , either but on of all their such vocabularies occasions , . the Two word air 'impossible of strong ' arm was s a interlaced word unknown to form in a
sedanraised each of them from the p ground ; and after , a few halts for breathing , time to bearers and burdens , they were safely landed on the top of the rock of Abousir . I scrambled upwith a livellittle ' Black '
, y y climbing slapping , beside and aiding me , taking me at every great hi deli gh g step ht in with the such ' Arab zeal y ' , lad th y at ' s I power was fre of - quently well-nih overbalanced and sent tumbling down again .
" We stood then g at last on the rock of Abousir with the Second Cataracts follows of the _Nile the thickl at our feet studded . From left of to black right , or as dark far as the eye can h reach rocks , ifc y groups green porpyry
with which the bed of the river is broken up . The blue water winds and , roaring rushes in rap lashing ids and sound eddies which , in and when out the and river roun is d full them is all hear , making d at a a great low ,
distance , . sp In the far horizon , a , silver line of liht m , arks where the Nile agai Third n pursued Cataracts a p at lacid Semneh cours . e , , until it shows again g its turbulent career in the
away 64 We a gazed hasty , on thoug , endeavouring h lasting , impression with the aid of of the pencil view and before brush , us to . carry But thoug iving hts them which free are free we could wer not e soon be confined lost in such to pencil deep and reveri brush ethat , and it
gscope , , became of fact , hard or but to the determine offspring whether of an our idle present brain , ' ' position begot of were nothing plain bu matter t vain fantasy . '
and " Five cold should o ' clock overtake drew near us , , and and warned with reluctant us that feet we must and lingering depart lest glances night , we slowly left the spot which none of our party were likely ever to visit
again . The term of our journey had been reached , and we could not fail to look back with thankful hearts on the safety and comfort in which it had all been accomplished . "
The downward voyage proved full of incident , and we had marked many passages for extract , but our space compels us to _Tbe
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Notices Of Books. 353
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 353
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 353, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/65/
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