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The enormous size and the beautiful cutting of the stones and the exquisite strength of the mortarless masonry indicated noble proportions. "How interesting it's getting!" she said. "I love these blocks of evenly-hewn stone in the sand they look so mysterious, and eternal." "I want to take the men off this, if we're going to Assuan to-morrow it's getting too hot." "Why?"
"It could easily have been hired at Assuan," Biddy exclaimed. "And it could have beaten us. We've stopped at such heaps of temples where other boats only touch coming back." "If there were a plot, as you are always imagining, the dahabeah would have to be near here, too," Monny laughed incredulously. "And so it may be. We haven't seen round the corner of the Great Temple yet."
Four of these vessels the Tamai, El Teb, the Metemma, and the Abu Klea; and three steamers the Kaibar, Dal, and Akasha, which it was proposed to arm had, since 1885, patrolled the river from Assuan to Wady Halfa, and assisted in protecting the frontier from Dervish raids. All seven were now collected at the foot of the Second Cataract, and awaited the rise of the river to attempt the passage.
There are many other interests in Assuan, which is a delightful place to visit.
It's better to worship it like Akhnaton than to trifle with it." "All right, I'll go," Meg said, and as she went she wondered how it came to pass that Akhnaton was both a sun-worshipper and a devout believer in the Kingdom of God which is within us. The ballroom at Assuan was a wonderful sight. Margaret had never been to a more brilliant dance.
Bazaars might be artistic and unique, but as their quaintness and picturesqueness increased so also did the odours of garlic, the uncleanliness, and the flies in their myriads. Time passed pleasantly in Assuan, though at length Mac thought they had about exhausted most of its possibilities.
From Luxor they duly departed in the direction of Assuan. The direct distance was not over-long, but the day was blazing hot, the railway was badly constructed, and the sand filtered steadily into the cars. It was a comic-opera railway, this narrow-gauge line. The contract for its construction was let at an exceedingly profitable rate per mile to a French company.
Luxor and Assuan both lie on the east bank of the Nile; the great Arabian Desert in Egypt stretches from the Suez Canal to Assuan; after Assuan it is called the Nubian Desert. The Libyan Desert stretches from Cairo to Assuan, but on the western bank of the Nile.
I had not yet kept my promise to Rachel, though whether from lack of opportunity or courage I was not sure. Here we were at historic Assuan; and nothing had happened, nothing which could be written down in black and white, since the excitements at Luxor. Nevertheless, some of us were different within, and the differences were due, directly or indirectly, to those excitements.
The ordinary broad-gauge railway ran from Cairo to Balliana, where a river base was established. From Balliana to Assuan reinforcements and supplies were forwarded by Messrs. Cook's fleet of steamers, by barges towed by small tugs, and by a number of native sailing craft. A stretch of seven miles of railway avoids the First Cataract, and joins Assuan and Shellal.
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