This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...highness, 'cept trying to make the Nubians conform to the religion.' "' Well, ' says old Mohammed, ' I not send you up there as a priest; I send you up to get a little money. Don't you trouble the Nubians. We don't care if they go to Genneh or Gehennem, if you get the money.' So the Nubians were left in sin ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...highness, 'cept trying to make the Nubians conform to the religion.' "' Well, ' says old Mohammed, ' I not send you up there as a priest; I send you up to get a little money. Don't you trouble the Nubians. We don't care if they go to Genneh or Gehennem, if you get the money.' So the Nubians were left in sin and grease, and taxed accordingly. And at this day the taxes are even heavier. Every date-palm and every sakiya is taxed. A sakiya sometimes pays three pounds a year, when there is not a piece of fertile land for it to water three rods square. XXI ETHIOPIA IT is a sparkling morning at Wady Sabooa; we have the desert and some of its high, scarred, and sandy pyramidal peaks close to us, but as is usual where a wady, or valley, comes to the river, there is more cultivated land. We see very little of the temple of Rameses II. in this "Valley of the Lions," nor of the sphinxes in front of it. The desert sand has blown over it and over it in drifts like snow, so that we walk over the buried sanctuary, greatly to our delight. It is a pleasure to find one adytum into which we cannot go and see this Rameses pretending to make offerings, but really, as usual, offering to show himself. At the village under the ledges, many of the houses are of stone, and the sheykh has a pretentious stone inclosure, with little in it, all to himself. Shadoofs are active along the bank, and considerable crops of wheat, beans, and corn are well forward. We stop to talk with a bright-looking Arab, who employs men to work his shadoofs, and lives here in an inclosure of cornstalks, with a cornstalk kennel in one corner, where he and his family sleep. There is nothing pretentious about this establishment, but the owner is evidently a man of wealth, and, indeed, he has the...
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