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96 TRAVELS IN UITER
of a fiery sun, and in softening the rustic and mi-
serable aspect of the houses, is in common to this
with the other parts of the country.
This place must not be confounded with a large
village, of which the very similar name of Tamieh
might occasion some mistake But this last, in the
neighbourhood of which there is a canal, is de-
pendant on the Kiascheflick of Fa'i'tm, and about
five hours journey from Fai'um itself.
Between SioUt and Tomieh we met with Abou-
tige, another considerable market-town. Fragments
of ancient edifices and rubbish mark here the site of
the ancient city of Abo/us. Bui all is degraded, all
is destroyed. There are here no monuments, no
remarkable fragments in preservation, every thing
here is broken down and laid in heaps.
We experienced many difficulties in finding a
place of abode at Tomieh, and it was only by hav-
ing recourse to the authority of the Kiaschef i\\at I
was able to obtain a shelter for the night. They
shew in the mosque a camel of stone ; you see it
turn itself towards Mecca, at the instant when the
caravan of the pilgrims departs from Cairo, and
turn again towards Cairo when it leaves Mecca.
Such is the fable which the inhabitants of Tomieh
relate,
of a fiery sun, and in softening the rustic and mi-
serable aspect of the houses, is in common to this
with the other parts of the country.
This place must not be confounded with a large
village, of which the very similar name of Tamieh
might occasion some mistake But this last, in the
neighbourhood of which there is a canal, is de-
pendant on the Kiascheflick of Fa'i'tm, and about
five hours journey from Fai'um itself.
Between SioUt and Tomieh we met with Abou-
tige, another considerable market-town. Fragments
of ancient edifices and rubbish mark here the site of
the ancient city of Abo/us. Bui all is degraded, all
is destroyed. There are here no monuments, no
remarkable fragments in preservation, every thing
here is broken down and laid in heaps.
We experienced many difficulties in finding a
place of abode at Tomieh, and it was only by hav-
ing recourse to the authority of the Kiaschef i\\at I
was able to obtain a shelter for the night. They
shew in the mosque a camel of stone ; you see it
turn itself towards Mecca, at the instant when the
caravan of the pilgrims departs from Cairo, and
turn again towards Cairo when it leaves Mecca.
Such is the fable which the inhabitants of Tomieh
relate,