Excerpt from A Pilgrimage to the Temples and Tombs of Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1845-6, Vol. 1 of 2 Since the facilities of steam-navigation have brought the Nile within the scope of everybody's possibility, and rendered Constantinople an easier undertaking than the Giants' Causeway formerly was, so much has been published upon the East, that the subject has been completely exhausted by minds of every calibre, and books of Oriental travel have become a mere drug. It therefore looks like a work of supererogation, - a squeezing of the squeezed lemon, - to endeavour to extract a new idea from so worn-out a theme, or attempt to add a word to that which has already been so often and so well said. But, such is the incorri gibility of human nature, of female human nature, above all, - that, with the pages of King lake and Warburton staring one in the face. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.