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CHAPTER XI.
NUBIAN BALLET. OSTRICH EGGS. DESERT DROMEDARIES.
ABABDE ARABS. WADY SEBOOA.—DAKKEII. —SECOND EDITIONS
OF TEMPLES. GHIRSCHE HOUSSEYN. DANDOUR. EGYPTIAN
MERCURY. THE VENDETTA. RAHABA. — KALABSCHI. THE
GOD MALOULI.—BET-OUALLY. DEBOD.
Korosko, Dec. 14, 1845.
Last evening we reached this place, and were
again visited by Monsieur d'Arnault, who took
tea with us. At a later hour we landed, and
witnessed a national ballet which Mohammed
had organized for our entertainment on the sum-
mit of a high bank overlooking the river. The
decorations were worthy of the performance ;
on one side a group of stately palm-trees, on
the other an immense herd of dromedaries te-
thered and tied to pickets ; in the back-ground
the Desert with a Bedouin encampment on its
skirt ; fantastically-shaped mountains bounding
the scene, and the whole lighted up by the
glorious moon and myriads of resplendent stars.
What 7nise en scene, either at our Opera House,
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