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NILE TRIBUTARIES OE ABYSSINIA,
AND THE
SWORD HUNTERS OF THE HAMRAN ARABS.
CHAPTER I.
ABOVE THE CATARACT.
"Wit h o u t troubling the public with a description o f
that portion of the Nile to the north of the first
cataract, or with a detailed account of the Egyptian
pubis, that have been visited by a thousand tourists,
f commence by a few extracts from my journal,
¡written at tbe close of tbe boat voyage from
Cairo
J B ay 8, 1861.—No air. The thermometer 104°
Bi'ahr.; a stifling heat. Becalmed, we have been lying
jk e entire day below the ruins of Philse. These are
■he most imposing monuments of the Nile, owing to
■heir peculiar situation upon a rocky island that compands
the passage of the river above tbe cataract,
■he banks of tbe stream are here hemmed in by
fanges of bills from 100 to 250 feet high; these are
