Notes Of An Overland Journey Through France And Egypt To Bombay By The Late Miss Emma Roberts





















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places stretching out into the wilderness, no intermediate state
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I Observed Some Gardens And Cultivated Places Stretching Out Into The Wilderness, No Intermediate State Occurring Between The Garden And The Arid Waste In Which Vegetation Suddenly Ceased.

We might have performed the whole journey across the desert in the carriage which had brought us thus far,

But as one of the ladies was a little nervous, and moreover thought the road too rough, I readily agreed to choose another mode of conveyance; in fact, I wished particularly to proceed leisurely to Suez, and in the manner in which travellers had hitherto been conveyed.

The mighty changes which are now effecting in Egypt, should nothing occur to check their progress, will soon render the track to India so completely beaten, and so deeply worn by wheels, that I felt anxious to take advantage of the opportunity now offered to traverse the desert in a more primitive way. I disliked the idea of hurrying through a scene replete with so many interesting recollections. I had commenced reading the Arabian Nights' Entertainment at the age of five years; since which period, I had read them over and over again at every opportunity, finishing with the last published number of the translation by Mr. Lane. This study had given me a strong taste for every thing relating to the East, and Arabia especially. I trust that I am not less familiar with the writings of the Old and New Testament, and consequently it may easily be imagined that I should not find three days in the desert tedious, and that I felt anxious to enjoy to the uttermost the reveries which it could not fail to suggest.

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