MY WINTER ON THE NILE
By Charles Dudley Warner
Eighteenth Edition
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
1876
TO
MR. A. C. DUNHAM,
AND THE
VOYAGERS ON THE DAHABEËH “RIP VAN WINKLE,”
THIS
IMPERFECT RECORD OF THEIR EXPERIENCE IS
DEDICATED.
O Commander of the Faithful. Egypt is a compound of black earth and green plants, between a pulverized mountain and a red sand. Along the valley descends a river, on which the blessing of the Most High reposes both in the evening and the morning, and which rises and falls with the revolutions of the sun and moon. According to the vicissitudes of the seasons, the face of the country is adorned with a silver wave, a verdant emerald, and the deep yellow of a golden harvest.
From Amrou, Conqueror of Egypt, to the Khalif Omar.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.—AT THE GATES OF THE EAST.
CHAPTER II.—WITHIN THE PORTALS.
CHAPTER VI.—MOSQUES AND TOMBS.
CHAPTER VII.—MOSLEM WORSHIP.—THE CALL TO PRAYER.
CHAPTER IX.—PREPARATIONS FOR A VOYAGE.
CHAPTER XI.—PEOPLE ON THE RIVER BANKS.
CHAPTER XII.—SPENDING CHRISTMAS ON THE NILE.
CHAPTER XIII.—SIGHTS AND SCENES ON THE RIVER.
CHAPTER XIV.—MIDWINTER IN EGYPT.
CHAPTER XV.—AMONG THE RUINS OF THEBES.