A thousand miles up the Nile, with upwards - NYU | Digital Library ...

XX COXTEXTS.
CHAPTER V.
BEDRESHAYN TO MINIEH.
— A
The rule nf the Nile—The Shaduf— Beni Suef—Thieves by night
The Chief of the Guards—A sand-storm—"Holy Sheykh
Cotton '"—The Convent of the Pulley—A Copt—The Shadow
PAGK
of the World— Minieh—A native market— Prices of fjrovisions
-—The Dom palm—Fortune-telling—Ophthalmia . . 69
CHAPTER VI.
MINIEH TO SIUT.
Christmas Day—The Party completed— Christmas Dinner on the
Nile—A Fantasia—Noah's Ark— Birds of Egypt—Gebel Abufayda—
Unknown Stehe— Imprisoned— The Scarab-beetle—
Manfalut—Siut—Red and black pottery—Ancient tombs
View over the plain—Biblical legend . . . .88
CHAPTER YH.
SIUT TO DENDERAH.
An " F\i)crienced Surgeon''— Passing scenery— Girgch—Sheykh
Sclini — Kasr es Syad—Forced labour—Temple of Denderah—
Cleopatra— Benighted . . . . .107
CHAPTER VHL
THEBES AND KARNAK.
Luxor— Donkey-boys—Topography of Ancient Thebes— Pylons of
Luxor— Poem of Pentaur—The solitary Obelisk— Interior of the
Temple of Luxor— Polite postmaster— Ride to Karnak— Great
Temple of Karnak—The Hypostyle Hall—A world of ruins . ijj
CHAPTER IX-
THEBES TO ASSl'-AN.
A Storm on the Nile— Erment—A gentlemanly Bey—Esneh—
buried Temple—A long day's sketching—Salame the chivalrous
— Remarkable Coin— Antichi— The Fellah-— The pylons of
Fdfu—An exciting race—The Philaj wins by a length . -15 5