The Nile boat or, glimpses of the land of Egypt / by . APPROACH TO PHILyE. 209 sails, we could not breast its fury, but were evidently backinginto a whirlpool edged with jagged rock splinters—an ominouspredicament. It was now, at the decisive moment, that all butthose required for the helm dashed into the flood, and with along pull, and a strong pull, and a Heylessa* chorus, in-creasing in vigour and desperation with the obstacle to be sur-mounted, we shot up the rapid into the quiet water above, andthe rocks around echoed with the shouts and laughter of thenaked and streaming Nubi
The Nile boat or, glimpses of the land of Egypt / by . APPROACH TO PHILyE. 209 sails, we could not breast its fury, but were evidently backinginto a whirlpool edged with jagged rock splinters—an ominouspredicament. It was now, at the decisive moment, that all butthose required for the helm dashed into the flood, and with along pull, and a strong pull, and a Heylessa* chorus, in-creasing in vigour and desperation with the obstacle to be sur-mounted, we shot up the rapid into the quiet water above, andthe rocks around echoed with the shouts and laughter of thenaked and streaming Nubians, like so many animated statuesformed out of the black basalt crags around. A calm and noblereach of the majestic river, shut in like a lake with its mountainborder, soon opened on us through a portal of the last of thosescattered piles of sombre rocks through which we had forcedour noisy way; and in its midst an island slept, as it were, inenchantment —the sacred Phike; its temples of mysterioussanctity half-hidden by sheltering groves of palm, and refle
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