Forty Days in the Desert, on the Track of the Israelites: Or, A Journey from Cairo

advance Akaba Alawin ancient appeared Arabah Arabs ascending beautiful Bedouins beneath Bitter Lake Burckhardt Cairo camels caravan cliffs convent course crags dark defiles descended Desert desolate distance Edom Egypt Egyptian encamped feet foot garden gulf halt hodags Ibrahim inscriptions Israelites Jebel journey Komeh Laborde Land of Goshen leaving length Lepsius looking Maganhem Mecca Memlooks miles miracle monks monuments Moses mosque Mount Hor Mount Serbal Mount Sinai mountains mouth Muhammed narrow night Nile Palestine palm-trees passage passed peaks Pelusium peninsula Petra piastres pilgrims plain present principal probably pyramids ravine reached Red Sea region rising road Robinson rocks round route rude ruins sand scene seemed Serbal sheik Shobek side singular solitary spot stone Suez summit supposed tent tombs traveller Umbarak valley Wady el Arabah Wady Feiran Wady Maghara Wady Musa walls wandering wild wilderness wind