of the star-spangled vault And this apparent radiation from within, by its lack of likelihood, makes them seem more awful.And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand...
in the hollows and far away, this wonderful silver moon reveals even their slightest gestures; for their white robes and black cloaks stand sharply out against the monotonous rose of the desert. At times they call...

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port of ), by the river Nile, in steamers. ( Route 6.)See3rd, to across the desert; this part of the journey is performed in carriages. ( Route 7.) The entire journey...

the Delta, the scattered oases in the desert on the west, the eastern desert to the , with the greater part of the Peninsula of Sinai. Of cultivable soil the narrow valley above the Delta...
northern end of the African continent is traversed from the Atlantic on the west to the Red Sea on the east by a vast desert, which is continued eastward through Arabia and far into the heart...

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of the Bible and the Pharaohs.Queer Things about JapanQueerThings about PersiaI have also much to say about the exhilaration of riding and camping in the desert; the utterly strange life in the Great Oasis; the comedy of the Nile...
it falling into the hands of the Crusaders. In the mounds of sand heaped upon its ruins by the winds of the desert any one who likes can fossick for the remains of Arab pottery (all dating...

at orthographical transliteration, will no doubt provoke the wrath and scorn of the learned purist, but it seemed the best course to pursue, at any rate until some authoritative method of writing Eastern names...
the traveller to Beyrout before the end of May. Or he may vary the latter part of this programme by only going to Mount Sinai, and instead of continuing the Long Desert journey...

and desert, laughs to scorn the patient strength of the camel and the docile swiftness of the Arab horse; the uniform and arms of the soldiers are made to resemble those of the West more and more...
and the citizens, the peasants and the sons of the desert, at the solemn occasions of rejoicing or of mourning; as he watches the labours or the repose of the dwellers by the Nile, may still detect forms of antique...

of the Caliphs, or at night, when the bazars were deserted and the moon was high, to gaze upon the fairy lineaments of those three royal mosques in the Street of the Coppersmiths...
-el-; while the Turf Club, the Hôtel d'Angleterre, the British Consulate Offices, the English Church, and the Office of the Eastern Telegraph Company are all situated in the centre...

.Of the fascination of Egyptian travel, of the charm of the Nile, of the unexpected and surpassing beauty of the desert, of the ruins which are the wonder of the world, I have said enough elsewhere. I must, however, add...
that the Big Head knows it all, whatever it may be. He has never heard of the morning-song of Memnon; but he fancies, somehow, that those closed lips might speak if questioned. Fellâh and are alone together in the desert...