Travels in the Upper Egyptian deserts (1913) (14592806580)

Identifier: travelsinuppereg00weig (find matches)
Title: Travels in the Upper Egyptian deserts
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Weigall, Arthur Edward Pearse Brome, 1880-1934
Subjects: Egypt -- Description and travel Egypt -- Antiquities
Publisher: Edinburgh London, W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: New York University, Institute of Fine Arts Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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</ Greek inscription relating- to an elephant hunt, on a rock to theeast of the Temple of Wady Abad.—Page 163.
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Scale of Metr 0 123456789 10 Sketch-plan of the Temple o\ Wady Abad. Pl. xxxi. The Temple of Wady Abad. 167 much for his pencil to record and his mind to con-sider, the hours race by at an absurd speed. Thetwo days which we spent here passed like an after-noons dream, and the memories which remain inthe mind are almost too slight to record. Writinghere in the study one reconstructs the ruggedscene, and searches for the incidents which gavegentle colour to it. There was a flight of cranes,which sailed overhead, moving from south-east tonorth-west, on their way to spend the summer inEurope. Why should ones memory recall socharmedly the passage of a hundred birds ? Therewas a hyaena which, in the red dusk, stood upon ahill-top to watch us, and presently disappeared.There were three vultures which rose from thebones of a dead camel, soared into the sky, andalighted again when we had passed. There camea flock of goats and sheep at noonday to the well,with much bleating and with the gentle