New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-04

III. q
sembles the sea (naize) in many respects. In
appearance, it is very like broom-corn, but in
stead of the long, loose panicle OF red seeds, u
topped by q compact cone OF grains, smaller
than those of maize, but resembling them IN
form and taste. The stalks are from ten to
fifteen feet high, and the heads frequently con.
tain as much substance as two ears OF maize.
II is planted in close rows, and when ripe is cut
nv the hand with sort of sickle, after which
the heads are taken off and threshed separately.
The grain is fed to horses, donkeys and fowls
and in Upper Egypt is used almost universally
for bread. II is of course very imperfectly
ground, and unbolted, and the bread Is coarse
and dark. though nourishiHg. In the Middle and
Southern States of America this grain would
thrive well and might be introduced with advan-
tage.
The plains of coarse, wlry grass, which IN
manv points on the Nile show plainly the neglect
of the inhabitants, who by years labor might
convert them into blooming fields. are devoted
to the pasturage of large herds of sheep and
goats. and sometimes droves of buffaloes The
sheep are eli black or dark brown, and their
bushy heads remind one of terriers. The wool
is rather coarse, and when roughly spun and
woven by the Arabs, in it's natural color, forms
the mantel, something like a Spanish pOncho'
which is usually the Felah's only garment
Ih Seh RnsfEp s almost the only meat to be found
sidering the abundance of sheep. The flesh Of
buffaloes is eaten by the Arabs, but is too tough,
and has too rank favor, for Christian stom-
achs. The goats are beautiful animals with
heads as slender and delicate as those Of ga.
zelles. They have short, black horns, curving
downward-long, silky ears, and peculiarly
mild and friendly expression Of countenance.-
We have no difficulty in procuring milk in the
villages, and sometimes fresh butter, which is
more agreeable to the taste than the sight. The
mode of churning is not calculated to excite
ones appetite. The milk is tied up in goats
skin, and suspended by rope to the branch of
tree. One of the Arab housewives (who are all
astonishingly ugly and filthy then stations her
self on one side, and propels it backward and
forward till the process is completed. The
cheese of the country resembles a mixture Of
sand and Stacked lime, and has an abominable
flavor.
Leaving Farshoot. we swept rapidly past Haou
the ancient Diospohs para, or Little Thebes, Of
which nothing is left but some heaps of dirt,
sculptured fragments, and the tomb of certain
Dionysius, son of certain Ptolemy The course
of the mountains, which follow the Nile, is here
nearly east and west, as the river makes long
curve to the eastward on approaching Kenneh
The valley is inclesed within narrower bounds,
and the Arabian Mountains on the north, shoot
ing out into bold promontories from the main
chain, sometimes rise from the waters edge in
bluffs many hundred feet in hight. The good
wind, which had so befriended us for three days,
followed us all night, and when we awoke yes
terday morning, our vessel lay at anchor in
the port of Kenneh On leaving Stout, We had
about eight miles start of an American boat, re-
puted to be one of the swlftest on the river, but
the Cleopatra was not to be out done, and reached
Kenneh four hours before the Clipper.
Kenneh, which lies about a mile east of the
river, is celebrated for the manufacture OF porous
water-Jars and an inferior mart of trade with
Persia and India, by means of Kosseir, on the
Red Sea, 100 miles distant The town Is large,
but mean in aspect, and does not offer a single
object of interest Ii lies in the center OF broad
plain. which the Arabs are. now blowing fop
wheat. We rode through the bazaars, which
were tolerably well stocked and crowded with
hadji, or pilgrims of Mecca. Ny friend, who
wished to make flag of the Saxe-Coburg colors,
for his return, tried in vain to procure piece of
green cotton cloth Every other color was to be
had but green, which, as the sacred hue. worn
only by the descendants of Mahomet, was no.
where to be found. He was finally obliged to
buy piece of white stuff and have it specially
dyed. II came back the same evening, precisely
the color of the Shereef of Mecca's turban.
On the western bank of the Nile, opposite
Kenneh, is the site Of the City of Tentyra, famed
for its temple of Athor now called Dendera, from
the modern Arab village. After breakfast, we
shipped ourselves and our donkeys across the
Nile, and rode OF in high excitement, to make
our first acquaintance with Egyptian temples
The path led through palm grove, which in
richness and beauty rivaled those OF the Mexi-
can tierracaliente. The lofty shafts OF the date
and the yaulted foliage OF the dome-palm, blend
ed in the most picturesque groupage, contrasted
with the lace-like texture of the towering MINI
osa, and the cloudy boughs OF kind OF gray cy-
press. The turf under the trees was soft and
green, and between the slun trunks we looked
over the plain, to the Libyan Mountalns-a long
chain of rosy lights and violet shadows. Oui Of
this lovely wood we passed between magnih-
cent fields Of dourra and the castor-oil bean, hf-
teen feet in hight, to dyke which crossed the
meadows to Dendera. The leagues drank grass
on our night rolled away to the Desert in shining
pillows, and the fresh west wind wrapped us in
bath of intoxicating odors. In the midst of
this green and peaceful plain rose the earthly
mounds of Tensyra, and the portieo of the tenn
pie, almost buried beneath them, stood like
beacon, marking the boundary Of the Desert.