A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

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Despite the bad taste left in my mouth throughout various passages, I feel that the importance of the work comes from the many beautiful and exacting descriptions of the sites and the many illustrations.

At the northern end, built up between the enormous sandstone columns of the Great Colonnade, was the house of Mustapha Aga, most hospitable and kindly of British Consuls. The tombs in the Valley of Bab-el-Molûk are as unlike the tombs in the cliffs opposite Luxor as if the Theban kings and the Theban nobles were of different races and creeds.

Nothing in provincial Egypt is so painful to witness as the neglected condition of very young children. Of the Amenophium there remain only a few sculptured blocks, a few confused foundations, and — last representatives of an avenue of statues of various sizes — the famous Colossi of the Plain. This famous subject — which can only be seen when the light strikes sidewise — would scarcely be intelligible save for the help one derives from the cuts in Wilkinson and the plates in Rosellini. El libro, además, está ilustrado con dibujos de la autora, que dedicaba las distintas visitas a plasmar las maravillas que veía. Here also are the two famous harpers; cruelly defaced, but still sweeping the strings with the old powerful touch that erewhile soothed the king in his hours of melancholy.

This is the most important of my books, and the one by which I most hope to be remembered – if I may hope to be remembered at all! For each person were placed a chair, a huge block of bread, a wooden spoon, two tumblers, and a bouquet. Journeying southwards from Cairo in a hired dahabiyeh (manned houseboat), the companions visited Philae and ultimately reached Abu Simbel where they remained for six weeks. The original text is complimented by colour images of Amelia's artwork made during or shortly after her travels, which have only previously been reproduced as black and white engravings. With their own hands they piled the altar; and the eldest son, as representative of the rest, burned the incense and poured the libations.Long ago I looked down at the Nile and promised myself I would journey by boat down that river with its different peoples, temples thousands of years old, and many adventures.