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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Curious hills?El Drahah?Camels versus horses?A picturesque scene?Desert shrubs?-Water supply?A practical jokist?Chaos?The first casualty?A good citizen?Sketching under difficulties?News of the enemy?Revolver practice?Eas el Barrah?Wine and water. Our first day's march had made us all rather stiff and sleepy, and it was past seven before we were off next morning. The route through the earlier part of the day lay through the same stony plain, but after two hours' riding we got amongst the low foot-hills of the Tih. Strange broken heaps of yellow clay, out of which, as we rose to a higher level, the limestone strata began to crop, giving to many of the hills a curious house-like appearance. Below the stratum the clay had broken away in a vertical wall, while above it the sand had been piled up at an angle of 45; the whole effect being that of a lean-to hut on the side of the hill. This was particularly noticeable at a place called El Drahah, which deceived all of us into the belief that it was a house. It was not till we were about abreast of Jabal Esseik, and had entered the Wady Lamarah that we began to make any considerable rise. From this point the road made a gradual, but pretty steady, ascent, and at Narkeyeh el Ful, a narrow and abrupt pass leading down into the Wady Ghurundel, the aneroids showed a height of 3490 feet. It was nearly dark before we reached this place, not a very nice road for camels even by daylight, and loud were the cries of hoti, hoti, with which the drivers warn their beasts, as the cumbrous brutes felt their way from rock to rock. I must say for them that they never made a false step, which would hardly have been the case even with the best mountain ponies. I had always heard that camels were useless over rock, their soft feet be...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217998529
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 52
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217998526
  • Publisher Date: 08 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 109 gr


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