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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...of the river's bed, and the consequently swift or slow passage of the body of water through its narrow or broad channel. But as the wind in the winter months of Egypt almost always blows from the north to south, and the return course lies in the general direction of from south to north, it is not too often that one benefits much even by the river's current, the strength of which may be counteracted by a contrary wind in a greater or less degree. The result is that the dahabeeah becomes continually the " bone of contention " between these two elements, with varying fortune; for if there chance to be a soft air blowing it floats broadside to the stream, gaining about three-and-a-half miles an hour, whereas if the wind be coming hard up river, its strength predominates over that of the current, so that a couple of miles or thereabout are perhaps "logged" during the whole day. Otherwise one is forced to adopt the scarcely less useful and decidedly more resigned alternative of mooring in the near proximity of some village, till the breeze shall cease and allow your onward journey. It is seldom that the wind is sufhciently favourable to permit the balakoonsail to be spread, but when this is so, with breeze, current, and oars to help, the dahabeeah makes fine runs, often accomplishing nearly forty miles if the wind holds good all day. Last, but not least, there are the oars; but these the sailors will not use unless the day be calm and the wind either not blowing or soft, for the dahabeeah having otherwise to be constantly kept broadside to the stream, their labour would be wasted. Their mode of rowing is most curious, and not without a certain picturesqueness, as seen on board a passing native or pleasure dahabeeah or from the shore. On board the...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154181418
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 86
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154181413
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 168 gr


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