Identifier: roundworldletter00fogg_0 (find matches)
Title: "Round the world." : Letters from Japan, China, India, and Egypt
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Fogg, Wm. Perry (William Perry), b. 1826
Subjects: Voyages around the world
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e crowd of shouting, screaming, scoldingArabs and let them settle the matter, in theirown way. Any attempt to touch usor our effects was instantly resented witha rap from our rattans, for althoughwe did not understand Arabic, the logic ofa stick is well understood everywhere in theEast. The shaking of fists and gesticula-tions were numerous, but we knew theywere mere sound and fury signifyingnothing. At last the din and hubbubceased, and we stepped quietly into the boatof the victorious party, and were quicklyset across the river. At the railway stationon the west side we took the train to Buder-shain, twelve miles up the river. Therewere crowds of filthy Arabs swarming overthe third-class cars, and so much delay instarting on account of the broken bridgethat we did not arrive there until ten oclock.We hired donkeys at the station to go to thesite of Memphis, five miles distant. Be-fore starting we noticed that thesun was clouded in, and to me itseemed that a rain storm was coming up.
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231 But it very rarely rains in Egypt, and to onefamiliar with the climate the signs indicatedsomething infinitely worse—a sand storm.We had not reached a mile from the stationwhen it came down upon us with great fury.The force of the wind was terrific, and theflying sand seemed to cut the skin like aknife. In a minute we were blinded inspite of the green goggles we wore, and thesand penetrated eyes, nose, ears and mouthWe were in a desert of sand, and the air wasso full of the tine cloud that we could not seeten feet before us. We turned our backs tothe gale, and the howling of the wind andthe braying of the donkeys made such musicas I never heard before and hope never tohear again. I had read of caravans beingoverwhelmed and buried in the sands, butcould never before realize the horrdrs ofsuch a catastrophe. I took the puggree offmy hat and tied it over my face for a veil,and holding on to our donks for dearlife we took refuge under the lee of a sandhill until the gust had passed

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