“Take good store of captains, or other biscuits, for the Desert especially. Arab bread is bad, and that the traveller starts with soon gets very hard. [. . .] A small keg of whisky for a glass of toddy before turning in after a hard day’s march is desirable, especially as the Desert traveller may chance on some nights of cold rain. We had very little ‘spirit’ with us, and wished we had brought more. Good bitter beer is got at Suez, and a case of it might well be put on a camel.” – from the chapter “A Few Hints to Travellers [. . .]”, page 142. Contents: To Egypt, Cairo and the Nile; Upper Egypt: Memphis, Thebes, Syene; Egypt: The Pyramids and the Sphinz; Suez; The Desert of Sinai; Mount Sinai and the Great Wilderness; From the Wilderness to Hebron; Jerusalem; The Dead Sea; Jericho; Samaria and Galilee; The Coasts of Tyre and Sidon; A Few Hints to Travellers in the East, Especially the Desert.
