To Sinai and Syene and Back in 1860 and 1861

Abou Alexandria amongst ancient animal Arabs Assouan Ataka Ayun Mousa bank beautiful Bedouins Beni Hassan birds Bitter Lakes boat Cairo called camel carried caves church colour convent Coptic Copts covered crocodile cross dark deities desert distance dragoman east eastern Egypt England English Etham feet Gebel Mousa Girgeh Greek hand head Herodotus hieroglyphics hills honour horse hour inscriptions Israelites king Kitto's kurbash land light living look miles minaret monarch monks morning Moses Moslem mosque mountain night Nile obelisk old Egyptians once Osburne Osiris painted passed Pharaoh Philæ Pi-hahiroth piastres plant priests probably Ptolemies pyramids Rameses Red Sea rest river rock Roman rose round sail sand says Scripture sculptures seemed seen sheik shore side Silsilis stone Suez supposed Syene temple tents Thebes to-day tomb took traveller trees village wady walls wind word