Excerpt from Between Two Opinions: Or the Romance of a Saphi

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In descending the coast of Africa, after passing the southern extremity of Morocco, one travels for several days and nights in sight of an interminable country of desolation. It is the Sahara, the great "sea without water," which the Moors also call "Beled-el-ateuch," the land of thirst.

These shores of the desert are five hundred leagues long, yet there is no harbor for the ships which pass that way.

The solitudes spread everywhere with a sad monotony, without a plant or a vestige of life - only the moving sand-hills, the boundless horizons, and the blazing light of the sun.

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