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At Illahûn, just outside the entrance to the Fayyûm, was the great Nile harbour and entrepôt of the lake-district, called Ptolemaïs Hormos. The explorations of Messrs. The work for the University of California in 18991900 at Umm el-Baragat showed that this place was Tebtunis. This is a typical example of the portmanteau pronunciations of the latter-day Egyptians.
Would you had been 'all Indian' when you tackled Angelique's fried chicken! Umm! I can taste it now!" But at length the new canoe was ready. They had put as few ribs into it as would suffice to hold it in shape and Pierre had carefully sewn it with the roots of the black cedar, which serves the woodsman for so many purposes, where thread or twine is needed.
April Fools' day was another that deserved to be marked with a white stone. I aroused the camp at 3.30 a.m., in order that the camels might load with abundance of water: we were to reach the springs of Umm Gezaz, but a presentiment told me that we might want drink.
He seemed in no hurry to follow farther, but drew rein between us and saluted with the semi-military gesture with which he favored all who, unlike Monty, had not been Colonels of Indian regiments. "I tracked Umm Kulsum through the dark!" he announced, rubbing the burned nodules out of his singed beard and then patting his mare's neck.
Even the Widow forgot her envy and her anger at his deception and greeted Wiley Holman with a smile. "Well hello!" he hailed when he saw her in the crowd. "I thought you were going away." "Not much!" she returned. "Bring your men in to dinner. I'm having my dishes unpacked!" "Umm good!" responded Wiley and, shrugging his shoulders, he led the way on to the mine.
The mass, formerly mammilated, has been broken and denticulated by the destruction of softer strata. Already the lower crest, bounding the Sha'b Umm Khargah, shows perpendicular fissures which, when these huge columns shall be gnawed away by the tooth of Time, will form a new range of pillars for the benefit of those ascending the Sharr, let us say in about A.D. 10,000.
A subsequent visit to Wady Umm Jirmah found many furnaces surrounded by well-worked scoriae; of these, specimens were secured. After another half-hour, we dismounted at the watershed of the Wady el-Ghal, where the old guide lost no time in losing his head.
An educated man umm knows what he doesn't know." Joe: "Right!" This was heavy for fifteen, but Max was game. "The idea is to know when you don't know what you're doing; then you can go ask someone or buy a good book and find out," Joe explained. Maxie nodded agreement, winnings crumpled firmly in one hand. So, go find out what a story is, Joe told himself.
We brought back details concerning the three great parallel Wadys; the Salma, the Damah, that "Arabian Arcadia," and the 'Aslah-Aznab. We dug into, and made drawings and plans of, the two principal ruined cities, Shuwak and Shaghab, which probably combined to form the classical <Greek>; and of the two less important sites, El-Khandaki and Umm Amil.
We determined that the Marwah or "quartz-hill" of Umm el-Karayat was the focus and centre of the southern mining region, even as the northern culminates in the Jebel el-Abyaz. Further experience rejected the theory, and showed us half a dozen foci and centres in this true quartz-region. The main hill projects a small southern spur, also bearing traces of the miner.
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