A thousand miles up the Nile

CHAPTER VI.

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MINIEH TO SIUT.

Christmas Day--The Party Completed--Christmas Dinner on the Nile--A Fantasia--Noah’s Ark--Birds of Egypt--Gebel Abufayda--Unknown Stelæ--Imprisoned--The Scarab-beetle--Manfalût--Siût--Red and Black Pottery--Ancient Tombs--View Over the Plain--Biblical Legend 83