Excerpt from Our Houseboat on the Nile Does it not seem a simple matter to engage a dahabeah? Any one would think that a letter or two, a telegram perhaps, a week's notice, and the payment of $100 down would be all that was requisite to secure a houseboat; but he who tries to hurry in the East, to change Eastern ways and customs, little realizes that usage which goes back many centuries is much harder and higher to get over or break down than any stone wall. We wished to set sail in December, and the only chance of succeeding was to begin treating the previous spring. 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.

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