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The Life of David Roberts, R.a.: Compiled from His Journals and Other Sources
The Life of David Roberts Ra Compiled from His Journals and Other Sources Author:James Ballantine, David Roberts General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Original Publisher: Adam and Charles Black Description: Microfilm (positive). Chicago : University of Chicago Library, Photoduplication Dept., 1982. 1 reel. ; 35 mm. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos... more » or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VII. ' 7th February. -- Left Cairo for Mount Sinai, and slept in the desert. ' 8th and 9th. -- On our way. Overtaken by a storm of rain on the evening of the 9th, and before we could get our tents pitched everything was in a mess. ' 10th, Sunday. -- Came in sight of Suez and the Red Sea; country around, a desert -- not a shrub or tree in the whole line of road, marked only by the mouldering skeletons of camels. Suez runs out into the sea, defended landward by a wall. On the opposite side of the gulf, the mountains are reflecting the rays of the setting sun, in a red glow of fire, contrasting powerfully with the deep blue sea, and surpassing all other scenes in moral grandeur, from the mighty events which took place there. Suez picturesque. Made a few sketches. Boats curious in form ; sea limpid and pure. ' llth.- -- A row with our Arabs. Found out that the immense quantity of corn with which the camels were loaded, instead of being for their food during the journey, was intended chiefly for seed, the last year's crop having been a failure. Overtaken by a storm of sand so overpowering that about mid-day we pitched our tents close by the sea. ' 12th. -- Delightful morning. On our right is the sea, with a high range of bold and picturesque mountains, with beetling headlands, stretching far into the distance. A few fishing-boats give animation to a scene that would otherwise be lifeless. Our camels, Arabs, tents, and baggage lie s...« less