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

70 our ears.
The uremdice Of the Mohammedans against
the Christians 10 wearing away with thelT famli-
;.ritv with the Frank dress and their adoption OF
Fr.nk;.h vices The Prophets injunction
...;nst wine il needed by few OF his followers,
or avoided by drinking srakee, liquor distilled
from dates and favored with hemp. Their con-
,c;ence il generally satisfied with pilgrimage
20 Mecca and the daily performance of the pre-
scribed prayers, though the latter Is often me-
elected. Our sailors are very punctual in this
respect, spreading their carpets on the forward
deck, and occupying an hour or two every day
with genufexions, prostrations, and saiutatins
toward Mecca, the direction OF which they
never lose, notwithstanding the windings OF the
Nile The process Of rising, kneeling, striking
their foreheads on the deck, &c, has almost the
appearance Of gymnastic exercise, but their
devotion is evidently sincere. In the cathedrals
of Christian Europe have often seen panto-
mEnes quite as unnecessary, performed Win ieSs
apparent reverence. The people OF Egyp' are
fully as honest and well.disposed as the greater
mart Of the Italian peasantry. They sometimes
deceive in small things and are inclined TO take
tyiHinp advantages, but that is the natural re-
suit of living under government whose only
nile is force, and which does not even hest.
tate to use fraud. Their good humor IS IN
exhaustible. single friendly word wins them
and oven little severity uvo~-~ no lasting
S.oI;n. ~ ravenuo 1 should much rather trust
myself alone among these Felahs. than among
the peasants OF the Campagna, or the Doors OF
Corinthia Notwithstanding our men have daily
opportunities of plundering US. we have not yet
missed single article. We 60 ashore some
times with our dragoman, leaving everything in
the cabin exposed and especially such articles
as tobacco shot, dates, &C., which would most
tempt an Arab, and our confidence has never
been betrayed. We often hear complaints from
travellers in other boats, but am satisfied that
any one who will enforce obedience at the start,
and thereafter give none but just and reasonable
commands, need have no difficulty with his crew.
The next morning, the wind being light, we
walked forward to Ell Menschieh, a town about
nine miles distant from Ekhmin. IL was mar
ket day, and the bazaar was crowded with the
countrmen, who had brought their stock Of
grain, sugar-cane and vegetables. The men
were taller and more muscular than In Lower
Egypt, and were evidently descended from
more intelligent and energetic stock. They
looked at us curiously, but with a sort of friendly
interest, and courteously made way for us as we
passed through the narrow bazaar. In the alter
noon the wind increased to a small gale, and
bore US rapidly past Gebel Tookh to the city of
Girgeb, so named in Coptc times from the Chris
tian saint, George. Like Manfalout, it has been
half washed away by the Nile, and two lofty nina
rets are now hanging on the brink of the slippery
bank, awaiting their turn to fall. About twelve
miles from Girgeh, in the Libyan Desert, are the
ruins of Abydus, now covered by the sand, except
the top Of the portico and roof of the temple pal
ace of Sesostris, and part OF the temple OF Osiris
We held council whether we should waste the
favorable wind or miss Abydus, and the testi-
mony OF Achmet, who had visited the ruins, hav-
ing been taken, we chose the latter alternative.
By this time Girgeh was nearly out of sight, and
we comforted ourselves with the hope of soon
seeing Dendera.
The pilgrims to Mecca, by the Kenneh and
Kosseir route, are now on their return, and we
met number of boats, crowded with them, on
their way to Cairo from the former place. Most
OF the boats carried the red flag, with the star
and crescent Kenneh is at present filed with
pilgrims anu provisions are on that account
scarce and dear On the morning after leaving
Girgeh, we took long stroll through the fields
of Farshoot, which is, after Stout, the richest
agricultural district Of Upper Egypt An excel
lent system OF irrigation, by means OF canals, Is
kept up, and the result shows what might be
made of Egypt, We're its great natural resources
rightly employed. The Nile offers perpetual
fountain of plenty and prosperity, and its long
valley, from Nubia to the sea, would become, IN
other hands, the garden of the world. So rich
and pregnant soil have never seen. Here,
| side by side, flourish wheat, maize, cotton, SUI.
| gar.cane, indigo, hemp, rice, dourra, tobacco,
olives, dates, oranges, and the vegetables and
fruits of nearly every climate. The wheat
which is now young and green will in March be
ripe for the sickle, and the people are now cut
ting and threshng fields Of dourrs, which they
planted toward the end of summer. Except
where the broad meadows are first reclaimed
from the rank, tufted grass which has taken pos
session of them, the wheat is sowed upon the
ground and then plowed in by sort of crooked
wooden beam, shod with iron and drawn by two
camels or buffaloes. have not yet seen any in
stance in which the soil was MANFRED. The
yearly deposit made by the bountifui river seems
to be sufficient. The natives, it is true possess
immense numbers of pigeons, and every village
10 adorned with towers, rising about the mud
hu.s like the pylms of temples, and inhabited by
these birds. The manure collected from them is
said to be used, but probably only in the culture
| of melons, cacumbers and other like vegetables
with which the gardens are stocked.
The fields of sugarcane about Farshoot were
therchest have seen. Near the village, which
is three miles from the Nile. there is steam
sugar.refinery, established by Ib,ahim Pasha,