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Updated: May 2, 2025
I accordingly made him a present of many beads and bracelets, and a few odds and ends, that threw him into ecstacies: he had weak eyes, and the most valued present was a pair of sun-goggles, which I fitted on his head, to his intense delight, and exhibited in a looking-glass this being likewise added to his gifts.
The silence and mystery of the night, the vast expanse of sand shown so vaguely in the moonlight, the soft-treading, grotesquely-shaped camels, which seemed far less real and tangible than the black shadows thrown by them across the sand, and by day the blinding glare of the sun thrown back from the all-surrounding sand so fiercely that in spite of their sun-goggles they were nearly blinded, combined to make them high- strung and irritable.
An elderly-looking man sat in it, with a short brown beard and sun-goggles showing under his soft hat for the water burned under a brilliant sky stolidly fishing and reading a book. He looked like a rusticating college professor of Greek, say and this theory seemed to be supported by his obvious ignorance as to how to keep a canoe on the popular side of the water.
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