Category: Biographies
Few words are needed, and none by way of apology, for asking your acceptance of the accompanying pages. They are all I can now offer in grateful recognition of your affectionate regard for my very dear son, and of your sympathy with myself in the loss I have sustained by his u...
Few words are needed, and none by way of apology, for asking your acceptance of the accompanying pages. They are all I can now offer in grateful recognition of your affectionate...
2. Part 2Still winding our way up the Wadi; the mountains getting higher and steeper as we go on. Spied a most beautiful gazelle at about 10 o’clock, feeding on the scrub at the entrance...
3. Part 3A very cold windy morning. The thermometer fell to “freezing” during the night. Took the pack of hounds out, and explored the mountains to the north-west; but saw no ibex and ve...
4. Part 4[Footnote 5: One of the hydreumata, or watering stations placed by the Ptolemies at frequent intervals along the numerous roads across this desert, which led to the quarries and...