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At eight o'clock in the morning we safely reached the quay of Alexandria. Alexandria Keeping quarantine Want of arrangement in the quarantine house Bad water Fumigating of the rooms Release Aspect of the city Departure by boat for Atfe Mehemet Ali Arrival at Atfe Excellence of the Nile water Good-nature of the Arab women The Delta of the Nile The Libyan desert The pyramids Arrival at Cairo.
Opening the Shrine going up to the shrine, loosening the fastening, and breaking the seal, opening the door, seeing the god. 3rd. Praise various prostrations, and then singing a hymn to the god. 4th. Purifying cleansing the figure and its shrine, and pouring out pitchers of water, and fumigating with incense. 6th.
On the following day, ten chiefs arrived in great ceremony in rich dresses, who respectfully saluted Cortes and the rest of us, fumigating us with fragrant gums; after which they asked pardon for their hostilities, and promised to behave well for the future.
All around, covering the trodden floor, they lay, one on another. It would have warmed your heart to see him, like a lion, dabbled with blood and gore. Now all the bodies are collected at the courtyard gate, while he is fumigating the fair house by lighting a great fire. He sent me here to call you.
At the same time, if neighbours requested the favour, live coals were given them to kindle fires for the purification of their homesteads and turning off the disease. Fumigating the byres with juniper was a method adopted to ward off disease. Such a fire was called 'needfyre. The kindling of it came under the censure of the Presbytery at times."
He first of all imagined in detail an angelic host, and finally a whole theology was wrought out in petto. He used a gilt ornamented music-stand as a kind of altar with fumigating pastils for incense, where each morning God was approached by offerings until one day a conflagration put a sudden end to these celebrations.
From the left wing of the stage a door opened into the hall, affording communication by the staircase to the ladies' and gentlemen's dressing rooms on the floor above. Slapman. A strong smell of cigar smoke, as of one fumigating sullenly and furiously, was the unvarying proof of his presence in the house.
That young chemist was in a recalcitrant frame of mind. "I've done about ten dollars' worth of fumigating and a hundred dollars' worth of damage," he said, "and now, I'd like to have a Missouri sign. In other words, I want to be shown. What did some skunk want to kill my dogs for?" "He didn't." "But they're dead, aren't they?" "Accident." "What kind of an accident?"
"You," he said, turning to Curtis, "will be endowed with the property of overcoming gravity, i.e., you will be able to fly, to jump great heights, and to lift and move prodigious weights; and this property will remain in your possession during the prescribed period, provided you abstain from all animal food, from smoking and from drinking alcohol; and observe the same rules with regard to fumigating your sleeping apartment, and bathing your face, as Hamar and Kelson.
Ten minutes later she arrived in the dining-room, waving a lighted ribbon that disseminated perfume. "What on earth are you doing?" I asked. "Fumigating the house," she said. "It is unnecessary as I don't think they were infectious, but the ceremony has a moral significance like incense. Anyway it relieves my feelings." Then she laughed and threw the remains of the ribbon into the fire, adding,
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