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zebra, and so many other animals, besides reptiles 

 and birds, interesting to a naturalist. I had hired a 

 dahabieh at Cairo, and, with my faithful Thursday as 



THE RHINOCEROS FULFILS THE MISSION OF THE OX. 



servant, joined another boat bound up the Nile. I 

 planned to go at once as far as Assouan, where the 

 first cataract of the Nile is, and where the country 



