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and the Bedouin in spring to pasture. The chief resource of the population now is the
RUINED CONVENT OF ST. GEORGE.
In the Wady Kelt.
backsheesh obtained from
travellers for the perform-
ance of their zikkars, or
native dances. Near the
gardens and plots round
the villages may be noticed
many of the tropical plants
which are the most striking
natural features of the district.
Not only the two kinds of
zizyphus-trees, the dom and the
nubk, the false balsam, the
oleaster, and the gum-arabic
acacia, but the gorgeous Loran-
thus indicus, a scarlet parasite
of striking beauty, is abundant on the trees, and the apple
of Sodom abounds everywhere, while there are occasional
plants of the curious Nubian asclepiad, the " osher," with
its hollow puff balls filled with silky cotton fibre and used
for their matchlocks by the Bedouin.
and the Bedouin in spring to pasture. The chief resource of the population now is the
RUINED CONVENT OF ST. GEORGE.
In the Wady Kelt.
backsheesh obtained from
travellers for the perform-
ance of their zikkars, or
native dances. Near the
gardens and plots round
the villages may be noticed
many of the tropical plants
which are the most striking
natural features of the district.
Not only the two kinds of
zizyphus-trees, the dom and the
nubk, the false balsam, the
oleaster, and the gum-arabic
acacia, but the gorgeous Loran-
thus indicus, a scarlet parasite
of striking beauty, is abundant on the trees, and the apple
of Sodom abounds everywhere, while there are occasional
plants of the curious Nubian asclepiad, the " osher," with
its hollow puff balls filled with silky cotton fibre and used
for their matchlocks by the Bedouin.