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Title: Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Miller, D(aniel) L(ong), 1841- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mount Morris, Ill., The Brethren's publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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lift the water very high. It is remarkablehow much water two men will raise by means of a basketand ropes in a single day. But it is hard work swinging abasket in this way hour after hour. The men, partiallynude, stand in the hot sun as do the fathers of the shadufand sing in a low, monotonous tone as they raise the water.The annexed photogravure will give an excellent idea ofthis method of irrigating the fields in the Land of Goshen. We crossed the large canal by a well-constructedbridge, then followed a smaller watercourse some distance,and were finally ferried across. We rode toward the lineof the desert, which was in view in the distance, and in ashort time we reached the border of the plain and rode outupon the sand of the desert. We had been so much inter-ested in the fertile land and the strange scenes by whichwe were surrounded that we had taken no note of the time.Consulting our watches we found that it was half past one,and that we had been in fee saddle some four hours. We
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Raising Water with a Basket. WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 399 realized at once that the promise made by Achmet and thedonkey-boys, that we should reach the ruins in two hoursand a half, was a bit of fruitful imagination of our Arabattendants. Achmet was asked to say now how muchmore time would probably pass before we should arrive atour destination. He held a consultation with the donkey-boys and said with the utmost assurance, We go therevery soon, in half hour. Our course led us farther and farther into the desert,and we had lost sight of the green fields of Goshen. Ourdonkeys sank to the fetlocks in the sand at every step,and at the end of another hour were entirely fagged out.We called a halt. It had become painfully evident to usthat some one in our party had been untruthful. Wespoke our mind pretty freely to Achmet. We had nowbeen in the saddle five hours. How about the two anda half hoursride? we asked him. He declared that thedonkey-boys had deceived him. It was the saddest dayo

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