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The result of all such ruthless ruining was simply null. The imaginative Naji declared, it is true, that a stone dog had been found; but this animal went the way of the "iron fish," which all at El-Muwaylah asserted to have been dug up at El-Wijh the latter place never having heard of it.
Then push on west to the Greenland Spring, over Walhalla Plateau to Naji Point, whence you can look down into Chuar Creek, where Dr. Walcott, with three Mormons, spent a snowy winter studying the Algonkian strata. An Adventurous Trip. Or, better still, if you are ready for whatever adventure may befall on a seldom used trail, descend Dr.
"Behold Umm el-Karayat!" exclaimed Naji, the guide, pointing with a wave of the arm, his usual theatrical gesture, to the scene before us. Dismounting at once, and ordering the camp to be pitched near the ruins, we climbed up the south-eastern face of the quartz-hill, whose appearance was a novelty to us.
Naji, the sea-lawyer of the party, assured us that we had not finished a third of the way, when two-thirds would have been nearer the truth. The Wady sides and head showed traces of hard work, especially where three veins of snowy quartz had been deeply cut into.
Meanwhile Naji, who had told marvellous tales concerning a well in the neighbouring hills, which showed the foundations of houses in its bowels, was directed to guide Lieutenant Amir. It proved to be a long-mouthed pit, sunk in the trap hill-slope some four fathoms deep, but much filled up; and, so far from being built in, it had not even the usual wooden platform.
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