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exploits not, however, in the manner of these pioneers, with a 

 slowly pacing camel, but behind the energy of the iron horse. Let 

 it not, however, be supposed that the passage of the locomotive 

 through El-Kantara has revolutionized the desert ; true, it has facili- 



tated entrance to it, and has secured a certain passageway farther 

 into the interior. But the desert is still the desert of old; the 

 skeletons of camels and mules lie scattered to the right and to the 

 left wrecks of vain effort to make the passage the sands send back 



