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ZOO TRAVELS IN UPPER
and our progress very slow. On the same bank
as Nadir wo find Geziret el Adjar (the Island of
Stones), a village, at a little distance from whieh
are some ancient ruins, perhaps those of Nicii.
From Nadir the river runs north-west* as far as
Alguan, a small village, three quarters of a league
from Nadir. This place has a very wretched ap-
pearance. It is not enclosed, which almost all the
villages are that are of any size. The people here
have nothing but sorry mud hovels; though the
pigeons have a number of houses. I never saw so
many dovecots together in one place in my life.
Their shape is singular, being somewhat analogous
to that of our bee-hives. (See their figure and situa-
tion, pi. XII.) This construction is peculiar to the
dovecots of some parts of Lower Egypt, where
there is a prodigious number of them. They are
constructed of earth, square below, and conical
above. The inside is furnished with earthen pots,
in which the pigeons make their nests.
The commandant of this place was a Negro
Mameluc. He told me that, two or three years
before, the fellahs had found a large vase filled with
medals, among some ruins at no great distance;
• Ih the original south-iuest, but this is evidently an error of
the press.—T.
and
and our progress very slow. On the same bank
as Nadir wo find Geziret el Adjar (the Island of
Stones), a village, at a little distance from whieh
are some ancient ruins, perhaps those of Nicii.
From Nadir the river runs north-west* as far as
Alguan, a small village, three quarters of a league
from Nadir. This place has a very wretched ap-
pearance. It is not enclosed, which almost all the
villages are that are of any size. The people here
have nothing but sorry mud hovels; though the
pigeons have a number of houses. I never saw so
many dovecots together in one place in my life.
Their shape is singular, being somewhat analogous
to that of our bee-hives. (See their figure and situa-
tion, pi. XII.) This construction is peculiar to the
dovecots of some parts of Lower Egypt, where
there is a prodigious number of them. They are
constructed of earth, square below, and conical
above. The inside is furnished with earthen pots,
in which the pigeons make their nests.
The commandant of this place was a Negro
Mameluc. He told me that, two or three years
before, the fellahs had found a large vase filled with
medals, among some ruins at no great distance;
• Ih the original south-iuest, but this is evidently an error of
the press.—T.
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