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"Her dragoman who took her into the desert has returned to Luxor. I haven't seen him he could tell us everything we want to know." "The news came from him?" Meg's voice was a stinging reproach. "Yes. He only remained in Luxor a few hours; he was going to his home in Assiut, but he spread the story." There was a pause. "He took Millicent to Michael?" "He took her into the desert; they met."
'Let us go in and see what the fellow has to show. Dr Porhoët stepped forward and addressed the charmer, who brightened on hearing the language of his own country. 'He is an Egyptian from Assiut, said the doctor. 'I will buy tickets for you all, said Haddo. He held up the flap that gave access to the booth, and Susie went in.
In 1899 for the first time examining educational centres will be established at Assouan and Suakin. All those south of Assiut will be for English students only, for French will be quite dropped. Not only will there be a college at Khartoum but one at Kassala, where English as well as Arabic will be taught. In a new and thorough manner has the regeneration of Egypt and the Soudan been undertaken.
On 12th February we removed up the Nile to Minia a dusty, dirty, horrible place. Two expeditions of 2 officers and 43 other ranks and 3 officers and 40 other ranks set out from there one to guard bridges at Nazlet el Abid and the other to demonstrate along with Lovat's Scouts at Assiut.
I have known at first hand what excellent work was being done there. Unfortunately, owing to my very limited time, it is not going to be possible for me to stop at the college at Assiut, which has done such admirable work in Egypt and here in the Sudan, whose graduates I meet in all kinds of occupations wherever I stop. I am proud, as an American, Dr.
On my return to Assiut, I had the mummy placed in my tent, and thought no more of it till something awoke me with a startling suddenness in the night. Then, obeying a peculiar impulse, I turned over on my side and looked in the direction of my treasure.
As the Nile winds in its course the rocky hills on either side alternately approach close to the river, revealing a succession of rock-hewn tombs or ancient monasteries, or recede far into the distance, half hidden in the vegetation of the arable land; but, speaking generally, the river flows principally on the eastern side of the valley, while all the large towns, such as Wasta, Minyeh, Assiut, or Girgeh are built upon the western bank, where the largest area of fertility is situated.
It is cultivated in Turkey, India, Persia, Egypt, Algeria and Australia, as well as in China. I now recall vividly the beautiful poppy fields at Assiut, Esneh and Kenneh, by the banks of the Nile, in which such subtle powers were sleeping potent for ill or good as employed by man for deadening his faculties or soothing pain in reasonable measure. These flowers were of the reddish kind.
A smaller dam is to be constructed at Assiut, in order to supply a system of irrigation in the neighbourhood of that city, and also to carry water across to thousands of acres between this region and Cairo. This project is planned somewhat after the design of the barrage which is below Cairo. It is impossible to forecast what engineering skill may have in store for the future of Egypt.
I was quite alone in the tent, the only other European, who had accompanied me to Assiut, having stayed in the town by preference, and my servants being encamped at some hundred or so yards from me on the ground.
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