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Burt’s Library of the World’s Best Books.

A THOUSAND MILES
UP THE NILE.

By AMELIA B. EDWARDS.

Author of “Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys,” “Lord Brackenbury,”“Barbara’s History,” etc.

ILLUSTRATED.

NEW YORK:
A. L. BURT, PUBLISHER.

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PREFACE

TO THE FIRST EDITION.

Ampere has put Egypt in an epigram. “A donkey ride and a boating tripinterspersed with ruins” does, in fact, sum up in a single line thewhole experience of the Nile traveler. Apropos of these threethings—the donkeys, the boat, and the ruins—it may be said that a goodEnglish saddle and a comfortable dahabeeyah add very considerably to thepleasure of the journey; and that the more one knows about the pasthistory of the country, the more one enjoys the ruins.

Of the comparative merits of wooden boats, iron boats, and steamers, Iam not qualified to speak. We, however, saw one iron dahabeeyah agroundupon a sand-bank, where, as we afterward learned, it remained for threeweeks. We also saw the wrecks of three steamers between Cairo and thefirst cataract. It certainly seemed to us that the old-fashioned woodendahabeeyah—flat-bottomed, drawing little water, light in hand, andeasily poled off when stuck—was the one vessel best constructed for thenavigation of the Nile. Other considerations, as time and cost, are, ofcourse, involved in this question. The choice between dahabeeyah andsteamer is like the choice between traveling with post-horses and{iv}traveling by rail. The one is expensive, leisurely, delightful; theother is cheap, swift, and comparatively comfortless. Those who arecontent to snatch but a glimps

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