Tri-weekly journal., 1848-01-01


eled in Egypt, relates the following amusing
incident of Yankee enterprise:
We soon found ourselves in the desert, trav-
ersing seas of sand. The weather was exceed
ingly pleasant and the heat not so oppressive
as we apprehended. We had an agreeable par
ty, determined to be pleased with our journey
and not to grumble at whatever privations we
encountered. 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 APP
peared to be shanty near a small clump of palm
trees. II was rudely constructed of rough
boards, with an awkwardly formed door, the
whole looking like anything else but Egyptian
architecture; but it occurred to me that it
might have been thus rudely thrown together
as shelter for Sauans exploring the ruins in
the neighborhood. In front of the door, Turk
was seated on bench smoking his pipe. He
looked like an oasis in the desert. He had on
pair OF cotton trowsers, sandals, and turban,
with an dttdghdn stuck in red sash at his
side, and against the side of his shanty rested
a long gun. As we approached he rose up,
placed his hands to his turban, and said in Ara
bic. "RaSh ehaLicr" shook hands with my dra-
CONAN and exchanged a salutation with
the janizaries, who appeared TO know him.
His hair, complexion and manner satisfied me
that he was not mussulman. l rode up to
him. "Hallor'
"Hallo to you'll" said he in good English
The tone and manner in which he spoke, Great
ed suspicion that he was one of us. After
shaking hands with him he looked inquisitively
at me and said
Stranger, moughtn't have seen you be-
fore?'
"Where?"
''Why in New York."
81 belong there; but where do you come
from?"
81 traded in a sloop from Stonington to New
York, and am right sartin that I've seen you Of
ten
"Pray what are you doing here in this bar
rem and isolated spot?'
81 keep this hotel"
"Hotelp
ayes, sir,-nothing else 1t isn't the Astor
House, but Ientertain man and beast travelling
from the Red Sea. They reckon sometimes to
sop the night with me and get cup of coffee
and chicken now and then, and pipe.
Where will the enterprise of the universal
Yankee nation end? In what part OF the world
will they not be?
''But my friend, what originally brought
you here?"
Il went up to the second cataract on the
Nile to look after two horned rhinoceros foI
June, Titus, Angevine & Cos menagerie, but
couldn't get the tarnal creater they wouldn't
sell him for no price. So | resolved to stop
here while and keep tavern"
sis there great deal of travelling on this
route?
'Quite considerable. reckon this is to be
mighty country yet for trade from India.
They bring considerable goods across, and when
we get our railroad-"
sRailroad?"
''Sartain, sir. The route has been explored
and this is the depot, and I'm TO be the agent
so leftenant Wagbons says; and when we gel
our locomotive, we shall streak it from Cairo
to the Red Sea in six hours. Won't | scare
the lions, hyenas, and other varmints away
with that ere whistler So saying he set up
whistle as loud as a locomotive, evidently
showing that he had been practicing.
Stranger, won't your company stop fol-
breakfast"
Ipromised halt for an hour or two, which
was agreed to, and we rolled off our donkeys
and fastened our cames. Josh Hudson flor
learned that was his nancy brought out large
wooden mortar, into which he emptied some
toasted macha coffee, which he pounded fine
and boiled in ~ kettle over charcoal fur
mace, and served n9p to us as we sat under tn,
palm trees, with some eggs, quite comfortably
We filled our pipes and looked around at thu
barrenness which met our eye in every direc
ton. At a distance there were some mounds
some broken fragments of marble, here and
there remains of tombs and buildings, denotin,
that at some time it had been place of note
Josh hustled about and filled the pipes will
sweet tobacco.
"Moughtn't you like TO buy mummy" h
inquired.
Why, do you deal in antiquities, my friend?
Occasionally. I've got mummy, and ibis
and some glass beads, which tuck from toni
about mile of but the beasts in the neighbor
hood are troublesome, and dare not ventur
often"
"Well, landlord what's to pay?'
Josh reckoned the amount on the tips of hi
fingers, which came to Spanish dollar, which
we paid with great cheeriulness, and shool
hands with him on our departure.
AS DIR. Pangloss says in the play, "the hu
man mind naturally looks forward, this ente
prising man, no doubt aware that the overland
route to India would soon be established anC
that great traffic and commerce would grow on
OF this new enterprise, was determined to TAX
his position in time; and so commenced squat
ting on spot i'll a central position, to be read
TO take advantage of travelling, and also tn
trade IN trdnsitu, and have a monopoly of hi
position. "There is stun enough in the neigh
borhood,' said he ''to build smart hotel; an,
when can get hands, I'll surely put it up"