Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 206
Wilkinson).thers body, when a zephyr sf^rang up and cooled his fever.But still, say the Alexandrians, the fifty-days hot Cainwind return annually. In pictures of the mirage, or in cloud-shapes faintlyillumined by the afterglow, the dwellers beside the plainsof sand saw, as in phantasmagoria, the… … 186 THE DESERT EDEN. god, they beheld in dreams, which answer to natures ownmirage-dreaming, visions of dynasties passed away, ofmagnificent palaces and monarchs on whose pomp andheaven-defying pride the fatal sand-storm had fallen, andburied their glories in the dust for ever. The desert be-came…
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