The shadoof will raise six hundred gallons ten feet in an hour, and consists of a pole weighted at one end, with a bucket at the other; when the water is raised the weight counterbalances the weight of the full bucket.
The shadoof is used on small farms, and the sakieh is more often used for larger farms and plantations.
The primitive shadoof of native origin figured on a monument as far back as 3,300 years ago, and the more modern sakieh was apparently introduced in later times from Syria and Persia.
The shadoof of modern Egypt is the same, and we have seen it used both in that country and on the remotest mission stations in Southern Africa.
At another time the demands of the crops for water or for the mud-laden fertilising contents of the great stream, take him to the shadoof or to guide the bullock or buffalo turning the water-wheel.
Many years ago, when at Gondokoro, I arranged a double shadoof of parallel levers and two galvanised iron buckets of four gallons each, worked by two men.
The shadoof was used thousands of years ago, just as it is to-day, as we know by the pictures of it which are still to seen painted upon the walls of some of the ruins of ancient Egyptian buildings.
The man who works the shadoof stands near the water's edge, below the slender arm of the balance.
Drawing water with the aid of the shadoof is said to be very hard work, especially in so hot a country as Egypt.
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