. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . A DAINTY VILLAGE LOOKS FOUTH SMILING FROM BENEATH ITS PALM filth and ugliness : a cluster of low grey huts built of mud and laths ; two orthree taller houses, whitewashed ; an enclosed square shaded by sycamores ;. GEBEL ABÛFÊDA, DREADED BY TUE SAILORS.* a few old men, each seated peacefully at his own door ; a confusion of fowls,children, goats, and sheep ; half a dozen boats made fast ashore. But, as we 1-2 From drawings by Boudier, after photographs by Insinger, taken in 1886. TEE BILLS. 9 pass on, the wretchedness all lades away ; me
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . A DAINTY VILLAGE LOOKS FOUTH SMILING FROM BENEATH ITS PALM filth and ugliness : a cluster of low grey huts built of mud and laths ; two orthree taller houses, whitewashed ; an enclosed square shaded by sycamores ;. GEBEL ABÛFÊDA, DREADED BY TUE SAILORS.* a few old men, each seated peacefully at his own door ; a confusion of fowls,children, goats, and sheep ; half a dozen boats made fast ashore. But, as we 1-2 From drawings by Boudier, after photographs by Insinger, taken in 1886. TEE BILLS. 9 pass on, the wretchedness all lades away ; meanness of detail is lost inlight, and long before it disappears at a bend of the river, the village is againclothed with gaiety and serene beauty. Day by day, the landscape repeats
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