Identifier: travelsinuppereg00weig (find matches)
Title: Travels in the Upper Egyptian deserts
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Weigall, Arthur Edward Pearse Brome, 1880-1934
Subjects: Egypt -- Description and travel Egypt -- Antiquities
Publisher: Edinburgh London, W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: New York University, Institute of Fine Arts Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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The interior of the mosque at Kossair. — Page 78.
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The main entrance of the fortress at Kossair.—Page 79. Pl. XIV The Red Sea Highroad. 87 mit one to recall something of what they saw,though the spade of the excavator has not yettouched this site. There are two wells within reach of this spot,but both are two or three hours journey away,and the water question must have been a seriousone. The well to the north is named Bir Guah,and the other to the west is called Bir Ma-howatat. This latter is the name of a tribeof Bedwin living at Suez, who state that theycame originally from El Wij in Arabia. It isinteresting to find that a well here should benamed after them, for El Wij is nearly oppositethis point, and one may realise thus what inter-course there is and always has been betweenArabia and Egypt, even as far south as Kossair. Returning with the wind at our backs we soonreached Kossair, and rode through the streets ofthe sleepy town to our tents. To tea in the after-noon came the Mudir, who for an hour or so enter-tained us with tale

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