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62 TRAVELS IN EGYPT, NUBIA,
four clumsy columns standing on a plain circular base; their
capitals the full blown lotus. The depth of the building
inside is not more than twenty feet, and there are not any
hieroglyphics. Nothing remains to show that this portico
was connected with any other building. On one of the walls
inside is a cross of Maltese form.
The second building is open to the east: the north and
south walls are in ruin, the west is complete. In this is a
doorway, and within, in front, are two columns, with ca-
pitals of the full blown lotus, supporting a small portion of
roof. Scriptural paintings, as large as life, in distemper, re-
main on the walls; and over the cornice of the doorway is
the winged globe. In front of the open side lay several
capitals, broken shafts, and other fragments of buildings.
I was detained at Taeefa on the 16th, by the Kamseen
wind, which changed in the evening to the north and west,
driving the sands of the desert for miles so violently, as to
obscure the air, and hide from view the rocks close to the
boat. This continued for two hours, with violent gusts of
wind, thunder, and lightning; at last calmed by a torrent of
rain. My guide, Osman, comforted himself by chanting
praises of God and the prophet, in a most discordant voice;
whilst the boatmen, trembling and shrinking from the storm,
hid themselves in the bottom of the boat.
We rowed through the shdlaal of Galabshee, on the 17th
four clumsy columns standing on a plain circular base; their
capitals the full blown lotus. The depth of the building
inside is not more than twenty feet, and there are not any
hieroglyphics. Nothing remains to show that this portico
was connected with any other building. On one of the walls
inside is a cross of Maltese form.
The second building is open to the east: the north and
south walls are in ruin, the west is complete. In this is a
doorway, and within, in front, are two columns, with ca-
pitals of the full blown lotus, supporting a small portion of
roof. Scriptural paintings, as large as life, in distemper, re-
main on the walls; and over the cornice of the doorway is
the winged globe. In front of the open side lay several
capitals, broken shafts, and other fragments of buildings.
I was detained at Taeefa on the 16th, by the Kamseen
wind, which changed in the evening to the north and west,
driving the sands of the desert for miles so violently, as to
obscure the air, and hide from view the rocks close to the
boat. This continued for two hours, with violent gusts of
wind, thunder, and lightning; at last calmed by a torrent of
rain. My guide, Osman, comforted himself by chanting
praises of God and the prophet, in a most discordant voice;
whilst the boatmen, trembling and shrinking from the storm,
hid themselves in the bottom of the boat.
We rowed through the shdlaal of Galabshee, on the 17th