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Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt (1881)

Wilson, Charles William, Sir (1836-1905), Woodward, John Douglas (1846-1924), Fenn, Harry (1838-1911) · D. Appleton · leaf 548

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A village threshing floor. Showing a primitive threshing-sledge drawn by buffaloes, and a peasant separating the chaff from the grain with a winnowing fork. The huts of the village are formed of mud and sun-dried bricks, roofed with palm tree rafters thatched with stalks of Indian corn, palm…

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