Sonnini de Manoncourt, Charles Nicolas Sigisbert: Travels in upper and lower Egypt (Band 2) (London, 1807)

35^ TRAVELS IN UPPER

" 18. Friday, like Thursday, or rather worse,
" the E. S. E. wind being great.

" 19. Saturday, like Friday.

t: co. Sunday, the wind N. and cloudy, night
«f fair.

" 21. Monday, the wind N.W. fair.

" 22. Tuesday, fair, the wind N. W. it rained
" a little towards night, the wind great.

" 23. Wednesday, fair day and night, the wind
*' N. W. The wind somewhat great.

<! 24. Cloudy, at night it rained much. N. W.

" 25. Sometimes fair, sometimes cloudy, N.W.
" about 4 P. M. it rained, so likewise at night
" very much.

" 26. Saturday, very windy, N. W. and often
" rainy.

** 27. Sunday, in the day very windy, N.W.
u sometimes rainy, at night fair; no great wind
" but full of vapours, so that the pole star nor
" the yards could be clearly seen.

" 28. In the day a dusky sky all over, yet not
t: many clouds ; the sun could not be seen, so at
" night; in the night it rained a little, the winds
" east.

" 29. The sky full of vapours, but not so ob-
" scure as the 28th. A quarter of an hour before
" sun-set, the sun being immersed in the vapours,
" about the horizon, seemed for a while like burn-
" ing iron, or like (lie moon as I have seen sorac-

" times