Excerpt from Letters From the EastPassage in a steamer up the Nile to Thebes and the lower cataract of the Nile - Arrangements for the voyage - Beauty of the weather. - Upper Egypt, its aspect. - Irrigation. - Villages. - Scarcity of fruit-trees. Rocky hills overlooking the narrow valley of the Nile - The Tem ples of Thebes and Kamac. - A French excavator, M. Mounier. Uncovering of old temples - Tyranny of the Egyptian authorities. A Latin convent.-copts. - Their church.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.