Mummies and Moslems
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ISBN13: 9780217256971
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 28 THE VANQUISHED DIGNITARY. Good gracious You don't say so Yes, sir. And he is in full sympathy. But he dare not say anything. He knows that his church is on its last legs. I told him that I did not care to see the Pope, but if he wanted to meet me, and discuss the infallibility question, I was ready for him. JVhat did the Pope's head-man say to that? He said that he would see the Pope, and see if he could arrange an interview; and would let me know. I waited a week in Rome, but no notice came. I tell you the Pope don't dare discuss it. Then he didn't see you ? No, sir. But I wrote him a letter from Naples. Perhaps he won't answer it. Well, if he doesn't, that is a confession that he can't. He leaves the field. That will satisfy me. I said I thought he would be satisfied. The Mediterranean enlarges on acquaintance. On the fourth day we are still without sight of Africa, though the industrious screw brings us nearer every moment. We talk of Carthage, and think we can see the color of the Libyan sand in the yellow clouds at night. It is two o'clock on the morning of December the third, when we make the Pharos of Alexandria, and wait for a pilot. CHAPTER II. WITHIN THE PORTALS. EAGERNESS to see Africa brings us on deck at dawn. The low coast is not yet visible. Africa, as we had been taught, lies in heathen darkness. It is the policy of the Egyptian government to make the harbor difficult of access to hostile men-of-war, and we, who are peacefully inclined, cannot come in till daylight, nor then without a pilot. The day breaks beautifully, and the Pharos is set like a star in the bright streak of the East. Before we can distinguish land, we see the so-called Pompey's Pillar and the light-house, the palms, the mina...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217256971 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021725697X |
| Weight | 1.10 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.76 In |
| List Price | $24.67 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 340 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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