. Mount Seir, Sinai and western Palestine. Being a narrative of a scientific expedition . ities at Cairo, a collection of surpassing interest andvariety, illustrative of ancient Egyptian art, collected mainly throughthe instrumentality of Mariette Bey. The museum stands by the banksof the Nile. It unfortunately happened that at the time of our visit theDirector, to whom I had a letter of introduction, was absent, and theofficial catalogue had not then been published, but with the aid ofeither Murray or Baedeker, and the inscriptions accompanying theobjects themselves, the visitor need be at no
. Mount Seir, Sinai and western Palestine. Being a narrative of a scientific expedition . ities at Cairo, a collection of surpassing interest andvariety, illustrative of ancient Egyptian art, collected mainly throughthe instrumentality of Mariette Bey. The museum stands by the banksof the Nile. It unfortunately happened that at the time of our visit theDirector, to whom I had a letter of introduction, was absent, and theofficial catalogue had not then been published, but with the aid ofeither Murray or Baedeker, and the inscriptions accompanying theobjects themselves, the visitor need be at no loss. In this place I may refer to the Nile oscillations. On the wall ofShepherds Hotel is to be seen a map, or diagram, vipon which isrepresented the oscillations of the water for each year as it comes for the year 1882-3 were as follows :—? ^ There are generally three successive risings of the Nile waters, due to theindux of the floods from the Atbara, and the Blue and White Nile branches. 24 NAPvllATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION THROUGH ARABIA PETRyEA, MAXIMUM lerd^er Octoi. Elevation. Minimum Slight increaseRapid increase Slight increase Maximum ....Slight decrease Rapid fall Months. June. Latter part of June,f July. L Middle of August,r Middle of „ September End of September. Middle of of November.\_ December. THE VALLEY OF THE ARABAH, AND WESTERN PALESTINE. 25Elevation. Months. f January. „ , , , February. Gradual decrease <J I March. t April. On Monday, 5th November, our Aiabs and camels mustered forinspection in an open space of groiuid not far from our hotel, and we wentout to visit them and to have our first experience of bestriding a camelsback. There were about forty in all—some with saddles for riding, thesebeing slight and young-looking; the others with nets and ropes forbaggage. The men belonged to the Towara tribe, of whom the headSheikh, Ibu Shedid, resides permanently in Cairo.* I liked the faces of themen
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