How I Found Livingstone Travels, Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray







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The astonishing brightness and clearness of the sky under which the
island seemed to bask, struck me as surpassing anything - Page 121
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The Astonishing Brightness And Clearness Of The Sky Under Which The Island Seemed To Bask, Struck Me As Surpassing Anything I Had Seen- -Not Even At Cadiz, Or The Piraeus, Had I Seen Sands So Yellow, Or Water So Magnificently Blue.

The houses of the people along the shore were but poor tenements, with humble courtyards and gardens; but every

Fig-tree was gilded and bright, as if it were in an Hesperian orchard; the palms, planted here and there, rose with a sort of halo of light round about them; the creepers on the walls quite dazzled with the brilliancy of their flowers and leaves; the people lay in the cool shadows, happy and idle, with handsome solemn faces; nobody seemed to be at work; they only talked a very little, as if idleness and silence were a condition of the delightful shining atmosphere in which they lived.

We went down to an old mosque by the sea-shore, with a cluster of ancient domes hard by it, blazing in the sunshine, and carved all over with names of Allah, and titles of old pirates and generals who reposed there. The guardian of the mosque sat in the garden- court, upon a high wooden pulpit, lazily wagging his body to and fro, and singing the praises of the Prophet gently through his nose, as the breeze stirred through the trees overhead, and cast chequered and changing shadows over the paved court, and the little fountains, and the nasal psalmist on his perch.

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