The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1847-07-06
The Yankee turned Turk.

A correspondent of Noah's Sunday
Times, who lately travelled in Egypt, re-
lates the following amusing incident OF
Yankee enterprize
We soon found ourselves in the desert,
traversing seas Of sand. The weather
was exceedingly pleasant, and the heat
not as oppressive as we apprehended.-
We had an agreeable party, determined
to be pleased with the journey, and not
grumbIe at whatever privations we en-
countered. Early on the second day.
after camping among some ruins, and
hearing in the night the howl ola solitary
hyena-not very pleasant sound-we
saw at distance what appeared TO be a
shaniy near a small clump of palm trees.
1t was rudely constructed of rough boards
with an awfully formed door-the whole
looking like anything else but Egyptian
architecture but it occurred TO me that 1t
might have been thus rudely thrown to-
gether as a shelter for savans exploring
the ruins in the neighborhood. In the
front of the door, a Turk was seated on
bench smoking bis pipe. He looked like
an oasis in the desert. He had on pair
of cotton trowsers, sandals, a striped shirt
and turban, with an GttGghGn stuck In
red sash al his side, and against the side
of the shanty rested a long gun. As we
approached he rose up, placed his hands
on his turban, and said in Arabic, "BaSk
chaHc l'' shook hands with my dragoman
and exchanged salutation with the janni-
zaries, who appeared to know him. His
hair, complexion and manner satisfied me
that he was not Mussulman. ] rode up
10 him.
"Halloo -
"Halloo TO you ~ said he in good Eng
lish. The tone and manner in which he
spoke created suspicion that he was one
Of us.-After shaking hands with him, ne
looked inquisitively at me and said =
Stranger, moughtn't have seen you be-
fore :"
"Where p
"Why, in New York"
Il belong there but where do you
come from -
.I traded in a sloop from StOnington 10
New York, and am right sartln that I've
seen YOU Often"
"Pray what are you doing here in this
barren and isolated spot :"
II keep this hotel"
"Hotel!"
.Yes sir-nothing else 1t isn't the
Astor House but | entertain man and
beast travelling from the Red Sea. They
reckon sometimes to stop the night with
me, and get cup of coffee and chicken
now and then, and pipe"
Where will the enterprise of the uni
versal Yankee nation end In what part
of the world will they not be !
"Butmy friend, what originally brought
you here p
Il went up to the second cataract of
the Nile to look arier a two-horned rhl-
noceros, for June, Titus, Angevine, &
Co.'s menagerie, but | couldn't get the
tarnal creeter they wouldn't sell him for
no price. So resolved to stop here
while and keep tavern"
''Is there much travelling on this route!"
"Quite considerable. | reckon this is
10 be mighty country for trade from In
dia. They bring considerable goods a
cross, and when we get our Railroad"
Railroad p
"Sartin sir. The route has been ex
plored, and this is the depot, and I'm to
be agent--so Leflenant Waghorn says !;
and when we get orr locomotive, we shall
streak ii from Cairo to the RED Sea in
SIX hours.-WontI scare the lions, hye-
mas, and other varment away with that
ere whistle" So saying he put the hol-
low OF his hands to his mouth and sci up
a whistle as loud as locomotives, evl-
IDENTITY showing that he had been practls-
ing.
stranger, wont your company stop
for breakfast %
proposed a half Of an hour or two
which was agreed to, and we rolled of