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The modern dahabeah is often made of iron, draws about 2 ft. of water, and is provided with one very large and one small sail.

Until a few years age the tourist going up the Nile had to take a dahabeah.

The dahabeah moves only when the wind is in the right direction, and to go from Cairo to Assouan requires the greater part of a lifetime.

When a traveller goes aboard a dahabeah he tears up the calendar and lets his watch run down.

At one time, the only way of going up the Nile was by the dahabeah, a kind of yacht fitted up for the convenience of travellers, an expensive and dilatory mode of conveyance.