Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 185
southerly than that of Mecca orCalcutta. It was some compensation, however, to runat full speed past the dullest of Nile scenery, seeingonly sand-banks in the river; sand-hills and sand-flats on either hand; a disusedshaduf or a skele-ton-boat rottingat the watersedge ; a wind-tor-mented Dom… … The Second Cataract 151 Mansoorah — all alike weather-bound and laid up help-lessly against the wind. The Mansoorah, with Captain and Mrs. E on board, had been three days doing these six miles ; at which rate of progress they mightreasonably hope to reach Cairo in about a year and amonth. The palms…
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