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302 IN THE TEMPLE OF SETI , ABYDOS . . . . 310 RELIEF , “ SETI AT WORSHIP ,
” ABYDOS . . 314 MAP OF EGYPT SHOWING RIVER DISTANCES . 325
EGYPTIAN DAYS PART I CHAPTER I . SOWAHEEN IN EGYPT xii
ILLUSTRATIONS.
302 IN THE TEMPLE OF SETI , ABYDOS . . . . 310 RELIEF , “ SETI AT WORSHIP ,
” ABYDOS . . 314 MAP OF EGYPT SHOWING RIVER DISTANCES . 325
EGYPTIAN DAYS PART I CHAPTER I . SOWAHEEN IN EGYPT xii
ILLUSTRATIONS.
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And the greatest danger of the Egyptian climate is , I am convinced , to those
robust souls whose bodily vigor and boasted indifference to variations of
temperature elsewhere lead them into carelessness in Cairo , or on the upper
river .
And the greatest danger of the Egyptian climate is , I am convinced , to those
robust souls whose bodily vigor and boasted indifference to variations of
temperature elsewhere lead them into carelessness in Cairo , or on the upper
river .
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On the contrary , it is highly interesting to watch as it sweeps in resistless billows
of dust from the river cliffs and whirls across the waters and the narrow plain . It is
scarcely more depressing than its bloodbrother , the scirocco ; and is it not one ...
On the contrary , it is highly interesting to watch as it sweeps in resistless billows
of dust from the river cliffs and whirls across the waters and the narrow plain . It is
scarcely more depressing than its bloodbrother , the scirocco ; and is it not one ...
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But apart from these , the visitor will have practically no alternatives save such as
are presented by a limited choice of means in going up the river , and by the
determination of what sights he will see and what omit in the long and narrow
strip ...
But apart from these , the visitor will have practically no alternatives save such as
are presented by a limited choice of means in going up the river , and by the
determination of what sights he will see and what omit in the long and narrow
strip ...
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Now the ways of visiting the Nile Valley are chiefly these : One may go from Cairo
to Assuan and back by rail ; or one may go by various forms of conveyance on
the river ; or , if desirable , these two modes of travel may be combined . But that ...
Now the ways of visiting the Nile Valley are chiefly these : One may go from Cairo
to Assuan and back by rail ; or one may go by various forms of conveyance on
the river ; or , if desirable , these two modes of travel may be combined . But that ...
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| Title | Egyptian Days |
| Author | Philip Sanford Marden |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1912 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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