Madinet al ayat

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literature, history

Saturday, same anchorage.

by Gustave Flaubert

Madinet al ayat — Saturday, same anchorage - hunting in the morning, same place, wind chilly - groups of sheep and buffaloes passing here and there between the palm trees, driven by a ragged child and by a woman; the w...

history, literature

Friday. Pulled with a rope in the morning for four hours;

by Gustave Flaubert

Madinet al ayat — Friday. Pulled with a rope in the morning for four hours; we moor near the village of Kafr El-Ayat, where the higher banks protect us from the wind a little. A few boats are moored nearby. We spend t...

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