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CHAPTER THE FIFTH
‘South we went towards Abu Zabal, past deserted
Helmieh and its lost block-houses in the sands, into
that quiet, pale country.’
Subchapter i
FANTASTIC as might be the nature of the search
on which we were setting forth, neither Huebsch
nor Marrot displayed impracticability. From morn¬
ing till night I was in constant activity here, there
and the many other places all over Cairo. They had
sold or otherwise disposed of their archaeological
equipment in the Jordan Valley, and fresh tools in
abundance had to be procured—spades, levels, sieves
and filters, casket-like crates wherein to bestow the
treasures buried so long ago by the renegade Levite
or other weak-brained ancient. With Marrot for
adviser I also engaged the native labourers and
purchased provisions.
There were ten labourers—Egyptian fellaheen, all
of them, immigrant countrymen who had found
the life of Cairo no great improvement on the
immemorial slavery of Nile-bank’s little fields. Marrot
would have offered them double the current rate of
wages, but I restrained him.
“That is far above the normal rate.”
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‘South we went towards Abu Zabal, past deserted
Helmieh and its lost block-houses in the sands, into
that quiet, pale country.’
Subchapter i
FANTASTIC as might be the nature of the search
on which we were setting forth, neither Huebsch
nor Marrot displayed impracticability. From morn¬
ing till night I was in constant activity here, there
and the many other places all over Cairo. They had
sold or otherwise disposed of their archaeological
equipment in the Jordan Valley, and fresh tools in
abundance had to be procured—spades, levels, sieves
and filters, casket-like crates wherein to bestow the
treasures buried so long ago by the renegade Levite
or other weak-brained ancient. With Marrot for
adviser I also engaged the native labourers and
purchased provisions.
There were ten labourers—Egyptian fellaheen, all
of them, immigrant countrymen who had found
the life of Cairo no great improvement on the
immemorial slavery of Nile-bank’s little fields. Marrot
would have offered them double the current rate of
wages, but I restrained him.
“That is far above the normal rate.”
62
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| The books of Lewis Grassic Gibbon > Lost trumpet > (62) |
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| Description | J. Leslie Mitchell. |
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| Shelfmark | Vts.143.j.8 |
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| Description | Sixteen books written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901-1935), regarded as the most important Scottish prose writer of the early 20th century. All were published in the last seven years of his life, mostly under his real name, James Leslie Mitchell. They include two works of science fiction, non-fiction works on exploration, short stories set in Egypt, a novel about Spartacus, and the classic 'Scots Quair' trilogy which includes 'Sunset Song'. Mitchell's first book 'Hanno, or the future of exploration' (1928) is rare and has never been republished. |
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