so far as this particular set of folk are concerned � it is less by the one can be more free you know i you may take a little walk into old and turning a corner you may catch glimpses of what mark twain calls oriental simplicity namely composed groups of dear delightful whose clothing is no more than primitive custom makes strictly necessary these kind of or art studies give quite a thrill of novelty to english society � a touch of � a of peculiarity which is entirely lacking to fashionable london then it must i be remembered that the children of the j desert have been led by gentle degrees to understand that tor the strange imported into their land by cook and the still stranger specimens of insect called upper ten which itself they will receive is a certain source of comfort to all nations and itself with sweetest into all languages and the desert born tribes have justice on their side when they demand as much of it as they can get or they deserve to gain some sort of advantage out of the of western who them by their dress and them by their manners therefore has become the perpetual cry of the desert born � it is the only means of offence and defence left to them and very naturally they cling to it with and resolution and who shall blame them the tall majestic meditative � superb as mere man and standing naked footed on his sandy native soil with his one rough garment flung round his and his great black eyes eagle like the sun � merits something considerable for to act as guide and servant to the western who clothes his lower limbs in straight like cloth shaped to the strict resemblance of an elephant s legs and the graceful design by the rest of his body in a stiff shirt wherein he can scarcely move and a square cut coat which him neatly in twain by a line immediately above the knee with the effect of his height by several inches the desert born him gravely and in civil compassion sometimes with a muttered prayer against the of him but on the whole with patience and � influenced by considerations of and the english season lightly and like blown over the mystic land of the old gods � the terrible land filled with dark secrets as yet � the land with wings as the bible hath it � the land in is which are buried tremendous histories as yet � profound of the supernatural � of wonder terror and mystery � all of which remain to the giddy dancing dining throng of the fashionable travelling of the day � the people who never think because it is too much trouble people whose one idea is to journey from hotel to hotel and compare notes with their acquaintances afterwards as to which house provided them with the food for it is a noticeable fact that with most visitors to the show places of europe and the east food and selfish personal comfort are the first considerations � the scenery and the associations come last formerly the position was reversed in the days when there were no and the immortal wrote his it was customary to rate personal inconvenience lightly the beautiful or historic scene was the attraction for the traveller and not the arrangements made for his special form of � apparatus could sleep on the deck of a sailing vessel wrapped in his cloak and feel none the worse for it his well mind and spirit above all bodily his thoughts were engrossed with the mighty of time he was able to lose himself in glorious on the lessons of the past and the possibilities of the future the attitude of the inspired as well as poet was his and a crust of bread and cheese served him as sufficiently on his among the then valleys and mountains of as the warm greasy fare of the elaborate table d at and serve us now but we in our superior condition the spirit of to events and scorn of trifles � we say it is completely forgetting that our attitude towards ourselves and things in general is one of most pitiable we cannot write but we can at both bed and board in every hotel under the sun we can discover in the air and questionable insects in the rooms and we can discuss each bill presented to us with an industrious which nearly drives frantic and ourselves as well in these kind of important matters we are indeed superior to and other of his type but we produce no and we have come to the strange pass of pretending that don is improper while we pore over with to such a pitch has our culture brought us and like the in the testament we thank god we are not as others are we are glad we are not as the as the african as the we are proud of our elephant legs and our dividing coat line these things show we are and that god of us more than any other type of creature ever created we take possession of nations not by thunder of war but by clatter of we do not raise armies we build hotels and we settle ourselves in egypt as we do at to dress and dine and sleep and contempt on all things but ourselves to such an extent that we have actually got into the habit of calling the natives of the places we foreigners we are the foreigners but somehow we never can see it wherever we condescend to build hotels that spot we consider ours we are surprised at the impertinence of people who presume to visit while we are having our season there we wonder how they dare do it and of a truth they seem amazed at their 