The Land of Midian, vol 2

By: Francis Burton, Richard

Book Excerpt: ...a plague: flights of them occupy favourite places, and they prey upon the young lambs, hares, and maimed birds.We advanced another five miles, and crossed to the southern side of the actual torrent-bed, whose banks, strewed with a quantity of dead flood-wood entangling the trees, and whose flaky clays, cracked to the shape of slabs and often curling into tubes of natural pottery, show that at times the Hism must discharge furious torrents. We camped close to the D mah at the foot of the Jebel el-Balawi; the water, known as M yat el-Jebayl ("of the Hillock"), lay ahead in a low rocky snout: it was represented as being distant a full hour, and the mules did not return from it till three had passed; but thirty minutes would have been nearer the truth. The Nile-drinkers turned up their fastidious noses at the supply, but Lieutenant Amir, who had graduated in the rough campaigning-school of the S d n, pronounced it "regular."The nighting-place on the D mah was as pretty and picturesque as the Majr was tClose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08KBGS3X2
• ISBN13: 9798675323814
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"