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Title: The Australian abroad on branches from the main routes round the world
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Hingston, James, b. 1830
Subjects: Australia -- Description and travel East Asia -- Description and travel New Zealand -- Description and travel Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Melbourne, W. Inglis
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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from one written in smoke. While such vanities were being suggested to me, I was dying for a drink,gasping for air, and the perspiration all streaming from me ! In my hot handthe rushlight I was invited to write with was, like myself, melting away, andthere was that weird appearance about things altogether that made one onlyanxious to be away as soon as possible. In time, with all the trouble of asecond birth, I again emerged to a world that I had. until then, never properlyappreciated. Some good Samaritan, who has experienced all my feelings, haspiled up some of the stones that have fallen from the corner of the pyramid,and so made a Cheops Restaurant where it is really wanted. I reachedhis welcome shanty in the condition in which Christopher Sly exclaims, ForGods sake, a glass of small beer ! An idea of the moisture that had beenlately squeezed out of one could be now formed, from the quantity required lureplace it. The foresight I had shown in coming hither on a donkey was rewarded
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The Disappointing Sphinx. 363 by the usefulness of the beast to me in my now weakened state, as itcarried me to the neighbouring pyramids, and through the heavy sandsto the Sphinx. A very disappointing sight indeed is the Sphinx !The eye of the poet and the historian combined is required to see any-thing whatever worth looking at in the nearly featureless old rock, whichhere sticks up out of the sand. Let one know nothing of its story, and nota second glance would be given at the crumbling old stone face and neckhere visible. Though over thirty feet high, the figure is dwarfed to nothing bythe immensity of the neighbouring pyramids. It is not of granite, as I hadread, but of limestone only, of which exfoliating pieces can be picked by thefingers from the neck. From the layers of stone thus exhibited the figure hasbeen certainly cut from a rock here standing. The natural strata of the stoneso seen look at first like joints of different stones used for neck and headpieces, but are not s

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