| Show wa was te to T e sir benjamin baker consulting eni gincer to the egyptian government tella tells an amusing atory cf of an interview he hc had eight yeara years ao ago with an old fashio nou native irma 11 owner at the time when the construction of a large reservoir somewhere some whee in the nile valley waa was fest ceribi serl sly proposed this descendant of the prophet who waa was very rich and had been tico in ice warned bv the government that probably be he would br b hanged h it any more bodice bodies of u bo he bad quarreled with were found floating in the nile assured sir benjamin that there could be nothing in the project of a nile reser voir or it would have been done at least years ago yet the assouad dam now shows that jhb ancients did not have all the enter price prise |
