Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-06-21

windmills the city in the centre; to the west.
ward, the fiat, sandy shore stretches mono,o-
nously away 20 the horizon; to the eastward.
the coast mcrges into Aboukir Bay.
Having taken this general view of our first
Egyptian city, let us enter it in regular man.
ner to view it in detail. The bay is crowded
with merchant vessels of every nation, among
which tower some very imposing looking
three-deckers, gigantic but dismantled; the
red flag, with the. star and crescent, fying
from the peak. Men-of-war barges shoot past
you with crews dressed i'm what look like red
night-caps and white pettdoats. They rise
To their feet at every shake of the oar, and pull
all out of time. Here, an ocean patriarch
(as the Arabs call Noah,) with white turban
and flowing beard, is steering an ark filled
with unclean looking animals of every des-
cnption; and there crew of swarthy Egyp-
,,ans, naked from the waste upward, are pull
mig same pale faced strangers to a vessel with
loosed top'sails and blue petre flying.
At length, amid deafening din of voices.
and pestilcntial efiluyia from dead fish and
living Arabs, you fight your way ashore, and
II you had just awakened from sleep of ages.
you could scarcely open a scene more differ
ent than those you have Just left. The crum
bling quays are piled with bales of Eastern
merchandise, islanded i'm the sea of white
turbans, wreathed over dark, melancholy ia
ces. Vivid eyes glitter strangely upon SOL
emn looking and bearded countenances. High
above the variegated crowds peer the long
necks OF hopeless-looking camels. Wrigglins
and struggling amidst this mass were pictu,
resquely ragged little boys, dragging after
them shaven donkeys with carpet saddles,
upon one OF which you suddenly find yourself
seated with scarcely volition of YOUR own.
and are soon galloping along filthy lanes with
blank, white, windowless and dooress walls
on either side, and begin to wonder when
you are to arrive at the Arab city. You have
already passed through it, and are emerging
into the Frank quarter, handsome square OF
tall white houses, over which flags of every
nation in Europe denote the residences of the
various consuls. In this square is an endless
variety OF races and costumes most pictu-
resquely CROPPED together, and lighted brilliant
ly by glowing sun in a cloudless sky. In
, one place, drove OF Camels are kneeling
down, with jet black servants in white tur
bans or crimson caps, arranging their bur
dens; IN another, procession of womer
waddles along, wrapped in large shroud lik,
: wells from head To foot, with long blacl
bag, like an elephants trunk, suspended from
their noses, and permitting only their kohl
stained eyes to appear. In another, a grom
OF Turks in long flowing drapery are seated il
circle smoking their chibouques in silence
and enjoying society after the fashion of 9th
gregarions animals; grooms with petticoa
trowsers are leading horses with crimson vel
vet saddles, richly embroidered; detachment
OF sad-looking soldiers i'm white cotton uni
forms Is marching by to a very wild music
; and here and there Frank with long NOUS
taches is lounging about, contemplating thes,
unconscious tableaus, which seem to hay,
been gotten up for his amusement.