The sons agreed and they collected coolies and drained off the water and began to dig out the silt.

The riches of the East, and of Egypt, flowed through, leaving their deposit as a river drops its silt; were ever- increasing.

This may aptly be compared to a dredger, which, gathers up all the silt of a harbour, and carries it out to sea, leaves it there and then returns to repeat the operation.