Congrès international des orientalistes, Transactions of the second session of the international Congress of Orientalists… (1876)
“ But the scene changes as soon as the Nile in the two months of January and February has commenced to cover the land of Lower Egypt with its waters. The vast and sandy plains disappear under the surface of immense lakes. Rushes and reeds forming large beds marvellously grow up to a great height, and millions of aquatic birds disposed along the banks of the lagoons, or united in flocks upon the islets of the marsh, begin to fish, disputing with man the rich spoil of the waters. ”
