They are called Sesostris, Amenophis or Ramses the Great.
And finally there are the rowing boats, which carry passengers incessantly backwards and forwards between the river-banks.

So long as the season remains at its height they are bedecked with a number of little flags of red cotton-cloth, or even of simple paper.

The rowers, moreover, have been instructed to sing all the time the native songs which are accompanied by a derboucca player seated in the prow.

Nay, they have even learnt to utter that rousing, stimulating cry which Anglo-Saxons use to express their enthusiasm or their joy: "Hip! Hip! Hurrah!" and you cannot conceive how well it sounds, coming between the Arab songs, which otherwise might be apt to grow monotonous.
***** But the triumph of Assouan is its desert.

It begins at once without transition as soon as you pass the close-cropped turf of the last square.