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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL.
sink the boat. Before I woke we were half across
the river, being obliged to cross in order to find a
convenient place for sinking. I was vexed at
having left so abruptly my new companions ; but
it was too late to return. We pitched our tent on
the bank, and immediately commenced unlading
the boat.
On a point a little above, in front of a large
house built by the French, at the south end of the
temple of Luxor, and one of the most beautiful
positions on the Nile, were two tents. I knew
that they belonged to the companions of the two
gentlemen on the opposite side, and that there was
a lady with them. I rather put myself out of the
way for it, and the first time I met the three gen-
tlemen on the bank, I was not particularly pleased
with them. I may have deceived myself, but I
thought they did not greet me as cordially as I
was disposed to greet every traveller I met in that
remote country. True, 1 was not a very inviting
looking object; but, as I said to myself, " Take the
beam out of your own eye, and then—" true, too,
their beards were longer, and one of them was red-
der than mine, but I did not think that gave them
any right to put on airs. In short, I left them with
a sort of go-to-the-devil feeling, and did not expect
to have any more to do with them. I therefore
strolled away, and spent the day rambling among
the ruins of the temples of Luxor and Carnac. J
shall not now attempt any description of these
temples, nor of the ruins of Thebes generally (no
INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL.
sink the boat. Before I woke we were half across
the river, being obliged to cross in order to find a
convenient place for sinking. I was vexed at
having left so abruptly my new companions ; but
it was too late to return. We pitched our tent on
the bank, and immediately commenced unlading
the boat.
On a point a little above, in front of a large
house built by the French, at the south end of the
temple of Luxor, and one of the most beautiful
positions on the Nile, were two tents. I knew
that they belonged to the companions of the two
gentlemen on the opposite side, and that there was
a lady with them. I rather put myself out of the
way for it, and the first time I met the three gen-
tlemen on the bank, I was not particularly pleased
with them. I may have deceived myself, but I
thought they did not greet me as cordially as I
was disposed to greet every traveller I met in that
remote country. True, 1 was not a very inviting
looking object; but, as I said to myself, " Take the
beam out of your own eye, and then—" true, too,
their beards were longer, and one of them was red-
der than mine, but I did not think that gave them
any right to put on airs. In short, I left them with
a sort of go-to-the-devil feeling, and did not expect
to have any more to do with them. I therefore
strolled away, and spent the day rambling among
the ruins of the temples of Luxor and Carnac. J
shall not now attempt any description of these
temples, nor of the ruins of Thebes generally (no