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... sand - A guide at fault - Lost in the desert XI . A NIGHT IN THE DESERT . The camel's real character - The desert Whiteley -- A camel- track - Illusions of the desert - The monastery at last XII . A COPTIC MONASTERY . A silent building ...
... sand - A guide at fault - Lost in the desert XI . A NIGHT IN THE DESERT . The camel's real character - The desert Whiteley -- A camel- track - Illusions of the desert - The monastery at last XII . A COPTIC MONASTERY . A silent building ...
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George Warrington Steevens. to see . The town lies on a little triangle of sand between the Canal and the salt swamps that fringe the Delta of the Nile . Until the Canal was cut , there was nothing there but birds ' nests . Now there is ...
George Warrington Steevens. to see . The town lies on a little triangle of sand between the Canal and the salt swamps that fringe the Delta of the Nile . Until the Canal was cut , there was nothing there but birds ' nests . Now there is ...
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... sand , sand and water , water and sand , stretching dismally flat as far as you can see . There are a few trees in the town , but hardly a garden , and never a rood of field ; they green turn out their beasts on the beach . There are no ...
... sand , sand and water , water and sand , stretching dismally flat as far as you can see . There are a few trees in the town , but hardly a garden , and never a rood of field ; they green turn out their beasts on the beach . There are no ...
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... sand . On the Asiatic side the brown desert stretches away flat , empty , endless . On the Egyptian a narrow ribbon strives to relieve the aching barrenness with a little green . A ditch of sweet water runs between Canal and railway ...
... sand . On the Asiatic side the brown desert stretches away flat , empty , endless . On the Egyptian a narrow ribbon strives to relieve the aching barrenness with a little green . A ditch of sweet water runs between Canal and railway ...
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... sand again . At length far off , as the Canal widens to a blue lake , you see a mass of dark green . It is too big for a Suez Company bungalow : it is Ismailia . Pick your way through the black veils of women and amber caftans of ...
... sand again . At length far off , as the Canal widens to a blue lake , you see a mass of dark green . It is too big for a Suez Company bungalow : it is Ismailia . Pick your way through the black veils of women and amber caftans of ...
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