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The house occupied by the islanders stood on the shore facing the little city It had once been a stately building, but now every part of it see to ruin except the central portion, which presented a less dilapidated appearance than the sorely das

The roof of the whole long structure had originally consisted of palm branches, upon which mud and turf had been piled; but this, too, was now in repair only on the central building On the right and left wings the rain which often falls in the northeastern part of the Nile Delta, near the sea, had washed off the protecting earth, and the wind had borne it away as dust

Once the house had been spacious enough to shelter a nuoods and provisions, but it was now long since the ruinous cha in the roof of the , but its slender column showed from what a very scanty fire it ascended

The purpose which this was to serve was readily discovered, for in front of the open door of the dwelling, that seee and on account of the pillars at the entrance, which supported a triangular pediment--also too stately for its sole occupant, sat an old wo no heed to her coainst the trunk of the loide-branching sycamore tree near the shore A narrow boat, now concealed froht her to the spot

The beautiful,counsel, had come to old Tabus to appeal to her art of prophecy and, if she wanted them, to render her any little services; for the old dahter of one of the principal ship-owners in Tennis, and had once been even irl

Now, as the sun was about to set, the latter gave herself up to a wild tu expectation

Not until a cool breath fro sea fanned her brow did she thron the cord and i a few aze soe white house in the northern part of the city, sometimes at the little harbour or the vessels on the horizon steering toward Tennis, anificent ship with bright-hued sails