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the most interesting river in the world in
many ways. Along its banks are found
ruins so old that modern civilization pales
before them. The Pyramids raise their
bare heads high in the air, a silent testi-
mony to despotic power, for sublime as
they are, they were built by slaves under

the master’s lash, an unwilling offering to

 

the sway of Kings. Here too, the Sphinx
is found half buried by the sands of time,

as silent as the grave, Could it but speak,

what a tale of sorrow, of suffering, of the

miseries of the old civilization it would
tell.
For 1200 miles in its lower course the

Nile receives not a single attluent and here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A FELLAH PLOUGHING—EGYPT.