He made a gesture towards a huge and gaily-caparisoned dahabieh not far away.
The departure of the dahabieh was celebrated with the usual Arab waste of powder, and all the echoes of the valley of the tombs across the river were aroused by the popping of many guns.
I have been indeed fortunate, for, as I now see more clearly than ever, in a dahabieh I could not have achieved a third of the journey, and in a passenger steamer I could not have done a stroke of work.
Passed some travellers; nothing looks so gay and pretty as a dahabieh with its colours flying and its sails spread.
If I hear that Ross has bought and sent up a dahabieh I will wait for that, if not I will go in three weeks if I can.
If therefore the dahabieh is in rerum naturae and can start at once, well and good.
The dahabieh sounds an excellent bargain to me and good for you also to get your people to Assouan first.
If you have bought a dahabieh for me of course I will await its arrival.
You remember the tall old steersman who went with us to Bedreeshayn, and whom we thought so ill-conditioned; well, he was in charge of a dahabieh close by, and he called up all the Reises and steermen to help.
Brune will take a place in their Dahabieh (my old Zint el Bahreyn), and leave me in six or seven days.
Mounier has invited me to go and stay with them at El-Moutaneh, and offers to send his dahabieh for me.
My Dearest Alick, Two sailors of mine of last year went to Paris in the dahabieh for the Empress, and are just come back.
I fear my plan of a dahabieh of my own would be too expensive, the wages of common boatmen now are three napoleons a month.
At last after endless delays and vexations the dahabieh was tant bien que mal ready.
We are soon at Assouan, and while the "Fostat" is being hauled by great gangs of negroes through the cataract, we are guests of the General in that command on board his charming dahabieh moored under Philae.
We had the "Post Boat" to Luxor, and the sailing dahabieh after that.
It took a day or two to get the "Fostat" ready--the dahabieh which he had sent down for us.
But I found nothing so interesting as a holiday we managed to squeeze in and spend on board a little dahabieh for two, on a nine days' cruise to Rosetta and back.
And tell both Hugh and Lucy that the dahabieh lay over so suddenly that every one else was nearly following me, and that if I had gone over into the Nile, I should only have been ready to welcome the others who were coming after.
The first instalment of the journal was brought by a gentleman with whose dahabieh they fell in off Benisooef.
At last this dahabieh arrived, and we had a large packet.
Mohammed appeared and told us that a dahabieh was on fire, and that English travellers were on board.
The gentleman who had brought the first part of the journal told us that he knew there was another dahabieh which was not very far behind him.
Carpets, cushions, divans, book-shelves; nothing was wanting to make the dahabieh a most luxurious little home.
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