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Dicky asked the ghaflir standing by what the youth had done. "It is no youth, but a woman," he answered "the latest wife of the Mudir. In a man's clothes " He paused, for the head sheikh of El Medineh, with two Ulema, entered the throng. The crowd fell back.
It appears that Aheer is the general name of the whole cluster of towns and districts; that Aghadez is the medineh, or city; and that Asouty is a town on the line of the caravan route to Soudan, a regular halting-place. Asben and Asbenouah are other names given to this same territory, and do not denote other countries.
Dicky asked the ghaflir standing by what the youth had done. "It is no youth, but a woman," he answered "the latest wife of the Mudir. In a man's clothes " He paused, for the head sheikh of El Medineh, with two Ulema, entered the throng. The crowd fell back.
"Then you're not what I thought you were," said Dicky under his breath, and, with a quick good-bye, struck a heel into the horse's side and galloped away toward El Medineh. In El Medineh Dicky went about his business a bitter business it was, as all Egypt came to know.
With these Dicky set forth for El Medineh in the Fayoum, where his important business lay. As he cantered away from El Wasta, out through the green valley and on into the desert where stands the Pyramid of Maydoum, he turned his business over and over in his mind, that he might study it from a hundred sides.
"Then you're not what I thought you were," said Dicky under his breath, and, with a quick good-bye, struck a heel into the horse's side and galloped away toward El Medineh. In El Medineh Dicky went about his business a bitter business it was, as all Egypt came to know.
In the Isthmus of Suez, at Ahnas el Medineh, in the Fayûm, at Asûan, and in Nubia, we find whole cemeteries in which the sarcophagi are made of baked clay. Some are like oblong boxes rounded at each end, with a saddle-back lid.
With these Dicky set forth for El Medineh in the Fayoum, where his important business lay. As he cantered away from El Wasta, out through the green valley and on into the desert where stands the Pyramid of Maydoum, he turned his business over and over in his mind, that he might study it from a hundred sides.
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