The Crescent And the Cross Romance And Realities of Eastern Travel
The Crescent And the Cross Romance And Realities of Eastern Travel
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Our recruit called himself ' The Hippopotamus, ' and a more grim, forbidding-looking negro I never beheld. His face was deeply marked with the small- pox, and frightfully seamed, moreover, with the explosion of gunpowder ; he was about six feet and a half high, and his lean black limbs looked like those of a skeleton in mourning. Now, the moorings are loosed, the sails spread to the northern breeze, Egypt recedes, and we glide into ^Ethiopia ! Colossal masses of granite, detached from the dark ...red cliffs that tower over us, lie strewn along the banks, and in the river. On our right, Elephantina nods all its palm-trees in farewell ; on the left, the deserted city, with its rugged ruins topping the jagged cliffs ; and soon the distance blended into one the vast distorted masses that lay darkly relieved against the pale blue sky. Our voyage for the next hour was very exciting and picturesque ; the river, narrowed between the dark crags, here and there boiled into milk-white foam : sometimes a pyramid of nature-piled rocks towered from the desert plain ; and between it and the barren hills, would for a moment smile some spot of vivid verdure, shadowed by acacias, or a palm-tree ; sometimes the sandy valleys were of deep yellow contrasted with the gloomy rocks whose shadow they received 112 THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS like water ; sometimes these sandy tracts were silvery white, giving the impression of a snowy tract by moonlight.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Our recruit called himself ' The Hippopotamus, ' and a more grim, forbidding-looking negro I never beheld. His face was deeply marked with the small- pox, and frightfully seamed, moreover, with the explosion of gunpowder ; he was about six feet and a half high, and his lean black limbs looked like those of a skeleton in mourning. Now, the moorings are loosed, the sails spread to the northern breeze, Egypt recedes, and we glide into ^Ethiopia ! Colossal masses of granite, detached from the dark ...red cliffs that tower over us, lie strewn along the banks, and in the river. On our right, Elephantina nods all its palm-trees in farewell ; on the left, the deserted city, with its rugged ruins topping the jagged cliffs ; and soon the distance blended into one the vast distorted masses that lay darkly relieved against the pale blue sky. Our voyage for the next hour was very exciting and picturesque ; the river, narrowed between the dark crags, here and there boiled into milk-white foam : sometimes a pyramid of nature-piled rocks towered from the desert plain ; and between it and the barren hills, would for a moment smile some spot of vivid verdure, shadowed by acacias, or a palm-tree ; sometimes the sandy valleys were of deep yellow contrasted with the gloomy rocks whose shadow they received 112 THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS like water ; sometimes these sandy tracts were silvery white, giving the impression of a snowy tract by moonlight.
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