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Identifier: crescentcrossor01warbuoft
Title: The crescent and the cross; or, Romance and realities of eastern travel
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Warburton, Eliot, 1810-1852
Subjects: Middle East — Description and travel Egypt — Description and travel
Publisher: London H. Colburn
Contributing Library: Robarts – University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tedof skins, tamarinds in dry cakes, and ebony clubs.We bought some precious stones, teetii of tlie hippo-potanms, and kurbashes, which are whips made of VOL. I. N 266 ABYSSINIAN MERCHANT. thongs cut from his horny hide. He told us, on hisreturn he should take back silks, jewellery, and cutlery,to the interior, and that articles of English manu-facture were inquired for by the remotest savages withwhom he dealt. We proceeded, in company with our travelled friend,to explore a temple that was nearly buried in sand.There are about twenty columns, some painted, somesculptured, and we determined on sending to WadyHaifa for men to excavate it. A change of windcoming on, however, changed our purpose ; and wetook an affectionate leave of our mercantile friend,(who, we found out afterwards, had taken us in, inevery article we had purchased from him). The men now fairly betook themselves to theiroars, and, raising their wild, enthusiastic song, beganthe homeward voyage. ANTIQUITIES OF MBIA. 267

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ENTRANCE TO THE GREAT TRMPLE AT IPSAMBOUL. CHAPTER XXVI. ANTIQUITIES OF NUBIA. Here Desolation keeps unbroken sabbath, Mid caves, and temples, palace?, and sepulchres; Ideal images in sculptured forms. Thoughts hewn in columns, or in caverned hill. In honour of their deities and of their dead. James Montgomery. We rowed all day, and floated all nifjht at therivers will, from the time we commenced our northerncourse. The reader by this time must be as tired ofriver scenery, palms, villages, and deserts, as, to saythe truth, we began to be ourselves. I shall, there-fore, only allude, as we pass, to the architecturalmarvels that fringe this unique river. n2 268 IPSAMBOUL. Towards evening, on the second day, after leavingWady Haifa, we repassed the extraordinary group ofpyramidal and other rocky mountains I have men-tioned in ascending the river, and then arrived at thechief wonder of Nubia, if not of all the Valley of theNile. The correct name of this rock-temple is Abou-Symbal; but it i

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