Pleasant Hours in Sunny Lands in a Tour Around the World
The book Pleasant Hours in Sunny Lands in a Tour Around the World was written by author Isaac Newton Lewis Here you can read free online of Pleasant Hours in Sunny Lands in a Tour Around the World book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Pleasant Hours in Sunny Lands in a Tour Around the World a good or bad book?
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They probably are of volcanic origin. The sun is intolerable, and the doctor forbade our uncovering the head, even at our meals. Does the thermometer falsify, or is it 160'^? I am conscious of acute pain, as though a knife were entering the brain, accompanied with a strange, oiddy sensation. \\q. Pass along around the bend, away to the north, and come to the old town of Aden. Opposite some queer, low buildings, reminding one of a ]\loorish town, is a square literally full of camels, some from M...ecca, some from Persia, Some are rest- ing on the ground, their long necks stretched at full length on the hot sand. Some are rising with a long, guttural groan, as if in protest of their load. Others are harnessed into rude two-wheeled carts. Every- thing but the houses appears to be suffering in the heat. Then on, on up to the elaborate and costly English water-works nestling high among the hills, and then gladly back again. Can Sahara, can Satan be worse ! How mortals can exist here, say nothing of enjoying life, is a great mystery.
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