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But the poor creatures are too thirsty and dispirited just now to give any sport, and the first touch of the cord is enough to bring them back to their allegiance. From the decomposed porphyry of the mountains carbonate of soda comes down in solution to the valleys. Much of this is converted into natron by the organic matter in the soil, and forms a white crust on the earth.
Clothing dressing the god with white, green, bright red, and dark red sashes, and supplying two kinds of ointment and black and green eye paint, and scattering clean sand before him. The priest then walked four times round the shrine. 7th. Purifying with incense, natron of the south and north, and two other kinds of incense. Probably such a ritual was a gradual growth of successive ages.
Some way to the right they caught sight of a whole herd of elephants, ranged in regular array like an army of rational beings, slowly proceeding to the water. It had been supposed that Lake Chad is salt. This is not the case. The natron or soda, which is procured in the neighbourhood, is found alone in the ground.
Murat and Moarad Bey at the Natron Lakes Bonapartes departure for the Pyramids Sudden appearance of an Arab messenger News of the landing of the Turks at Aboukir Bonaparte marches against them They are immediately attacked and destroyed in the battle of Aboukir Interchange of communication with the English Sudden determination to return to Europe Outfit of two frigates Bonaparte's dissimulation His pretended journey to the Delta Generous behaviour of Lanusee Bonaparte's artifice His bad treatment of General Kleber.
In a court-yard, protected from the rays of the sun only by an awning, was a large walled bason, containing a solution of natron, in which the bodies were salted, and they were then dried in a stone vault, artificially supplied with hot air.
It was now covered with natron for seventy days; and at the expiration of that time, it was washed and swathed in linen cloth, dipped in gums and resinous substances, when it was delivered to the relatives, and by them placed in the mummy case and sarcophagus.
The Oasis of Fezzan Population Ten Districts Their Denomination and Condition Sockna Honn Worm of the Natron Lakes Zoueelah Mixed Race Improvements in Mourzuk Heavy Ottoman Yoke Results of the Census Amount of Revenue Military Force Arab Cavaliers Barracks Method of Recruiting Turkish System superior to French Razzias Population of Mourzuk Annual Market Articles of Traffic Acting-Governor and his Coadjutors Story of a faithless Woman Transit Duties in Fezzan Slave Trade Sulphur in the Syrtis Proposed Colony from Malta.
"In the first place, no god, not all the gods together, could give any votary power to carry water in a sieve, be it rush or linen or horse-hair or metal, of which the meshes had been first scrubbed with natron or embalmers' salt or wood-ashes or fullers' earth. Water would run through such a sieve, did even all the gods will that it be retained.
I must point out to you, here, my dear sir, that the processes of embalming used by Antinea differ from the processes employed in ancient Egypt. Here, there is no natron, nor bands, nor spices. The industry of Ahaggar, in a single effort, has achieved a result obtained by European science only after long experiments.
Nearer the Lybian chain, from the Memnonian quarter inhabited by the undertakers, dissectors, and embalmers, went up into the blue air the red smoke of the natron boilers, for the work of death never ceased; in vain did life spread tumultuously around, the bandages were being prepared, the cases moulded, the coffins carved with hieroglyphs, and some cold body was stretched out upon the funeral bed, with feet of lion or jackal, waiting to have its toilet made for eternity.
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