A thousand miles up the Nile

CHAPTER XVII.

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THE SECOND CATARACT.

Volcanic Mountains--Kalat Adda--Gebel est-Shems--The First Crocodile--Dull Scenery--Wady Halfeh--The Rock of Abusîr--The Second Cataract--The Great View--Crocodile-slaying--Excavating a Tumulus--Comforts of Home on the Nile 283