. Wandering words. Reprinted, by permission, from papers published in the "Daily telegraph" and foreign journals and magazines. By Sir Edwin Arnold. With illustrations from drawings by Ben Boothby and from photographs. h my Nile story with thatpretty action of the captain of the Bedouin. I sent a Greek diver afterward to the wreck, butI suppose he soon found my bag of sovereigns andwent off with it, for he reported that the ghost ofmy cook and other dreadful Afreets haunted thespot, and that he could and would search no Bedouin has long ago disappeared in themuddy bed of the Nile, but
. Wandering words. Reprinted, by permission, from papers published in the "Daily telegraph" and foreign journals and magazines. By Sir Edwin Arnold. With illustrations from drawings by Ben Boothby and from photographs. h my Nile story with thatpretty action of the captain of the Bedouin. I sent a Greek diver afterward to the wreck, butI suppose he soon found my bag of sovereigns andwent off with it, for he reported that the ghost ofmy cook and other dreadful Afreets haunted thespot, and that he could and would search no Bedouin has long ago disappeared in themuddy bed of the Nile, but her fate is still a legendof the Nile. For myself, I do not wish to experience 70 WANDERING WORDS another moment like that when the sail of thedahabeeah lay flat on the water like the wing ofa wounded pelican, and the Nile seemed to lift upand drag away my limbs like shreds of it was indignation and swift meditation of re-source which occupied my mind. I am persuadeda man has no time to be frightened in such emer-gencies. I felt no fear and had leisure to feel none,but I was furiously angry, and the anger was usefulin controlling my helpless Egyptians, and saving ascore or so of human lives. ~V. .^;-^^^-? L^J^iir^^-::iSS ^.P. EVENING ON THE NILE. IVIN THE HOLY LAND
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