518 ([return])
[ In text "Sar'a 'l-Lijám.">[
519 ([return])
[ The invariable practice of an agent de police in England and France, according to the detective tales of MM. Gaboriau and Du Boisgobey. In Africa the guide often attempts to follow instead of leading the party, and this proceeding should always awake suspicion.]
520 ([return])
[ In text another prothesis without apodosis: see vol. vi. 203, etc.]
521 ([return])
[ In text "Fa ghába thaláthat ayyamin" = and he (or it the mountain?) disappeared for three days. ("Ghába" = departed, may have here the meaning of "passed away" and three days had gone, and he ever travelling, before (ilà an) he reached it.--ST.)]
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[ A feeling well-known to the traveller: I have often been laughed at for gazing fondly upon the scanty brown-green growth about Suez after a few months' sojourn in the wolds of Western Arabia. It is admirably expressed in that book of books Eothen (chapt. xvii.): --"The next day I entered upon Egypt, and floated along (for the delight was as the delight of bathing) through green wavy fields of rice, and pastures fresh and plentiful, and dived into the cold verdure of grasses and gardens, and quenched my hot eyes in shade, as though in deep, rushing waters.">[