How shall I find a quiet place for my dahabiya, where the functionaries of Messrs.

Cook will not come to disturb me?
We can now see nothing of the palaces of Thebes, whither I am to repair in the evening.

We are farther from them than we were last night.

The apparition during our morning's journey had slowly receded in the plains flooded by sunlight.

And then the Winter Palace and the new boats shut out the view.
But this modern quay of Luxor, where I disembark at ten o'clock in the morning in clear and radiant sunshine, is not without its amusing side.
In a line with the Winter Palace a number of stalls follow one another.
All those things with which our tourists are wont to array themselves are on sale there: fans, fly flaps, helmets and blue spectacles.