to the nature of his studies, or the turn of his imagination, could believe himself to be visiting the land of the Pharaoh Sesostris, or that of the Sultans of the “Arabian Nights.” For three days...
for cultivation, and near Bedrechein I found a field of Indian millet on exactly the same spot where I had formerly sailed in about six or nine feet of water. On the Arabian side progress has been equally...

, but which night be met with in the Libyan or Ethiopian desert. The union of leonine strength with human intelligence in a single being rendered it highly redoubtable; and it was accordingly worshipped as a god, Harmakhuîti...