New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-21
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entered contained four plain, nuseo 80.
AZ vh;ch had been shivered IN the en- 60.
;ns the ,rchitrave and capital so'p 80.
-. -. The walls were covered WIN Pain''
.Hs 'e .,,v aided and defaced, representing the
nd manufacture of fax, the sowing ana
s s. Of Grain, and the making OF bread, De-
.;ds. = number of spirited hunting and flshlng
.,sre. The occupap, of the tomb appears 70
Ave- been severe master, for his servants are
.hovn in many places, undergoing the punish.
nsnt of the bsstinado, which is even innic'eu
upon women He was also wealthy, for we sun
ace his stewards presenting him with taoie''
.hov;nv the revenues of his property he was
/. oyea, man in Josephs day, but the pi' Id
vh;cb he Law is now empty and the ARABS nave
Icno since burned his mummy 10 ooi 'hei NV
Th. ..cond tomb is interesting, from paint
,.n,esentipe thirty men, Of foreign natiOn'
e1 -. hroupbt before the deceased occupant
so,re .ntjousrians suppose them to be the breth-
ran of Joseph, but the tomb y that OF person
named Nehophth, and the number OF men does
not correspond with the Bible account. Two OF
the southern tombs which are supported by pill
lars formed Of four budding lotus-stalks bound
together, are covered with paintings represent
ing different trades and professions. The back
walls are entirely devoted to illustrations Of
Rymnastic exercises and the figures are drawn
with remarkable freedom and skill. There are
never more than two persons an group, one
being painted red and the other black, In order
the better to show the position Of each. In az
least FIVE hundred different groupings the same
exercise is not repeated, showing wonderful
fertility of invention, either on the part OF the
.rtist or the wrestiers. The execution OF these
figures fully reached my idea OF Egyptian plcto-
rial art. but the colors were much less vivid than
some travellers represent. The tomos are not
large, though numerous, and, what Is rather SIN
rular there is not the least trace Of city IN the
neiehborhood, to which they could have be-
onged.
The next day at noon we passed between the
mounds of Antinoe and Hermopolis Magma, lying
on opposite banks Of the Nile. Antinoe, built by
the Emperor Adrian in honor of his favorite, the
glorious Antinous, who was here drowned in the
river, has entirely disappeared, with the excep-
ton of its foundations. Twenty-Five years ago
many interesting monuments were still standing,
but as they were, unfortunately, OF the white
calcareous stone Of the Arabian Hills, they have
been long since burnt for lime. Before reaching
Antinoe we had just come on board, after long
walk on the western bank, and the light wind
which bore us toward the mountain Of Shekh
Abaddeh was too pleasant to be sighted; so we
saw nothing of Adrian's city except some heaps
of dirt. The splendid evening, however, which
ba,hed the naked cliffs of the mountain in rosy
fame, was worth more to us than any amount OF
marble blocks
The guide book says, "hereabouts appears
the dome palm, and crocodiles begin to be more
frequently seen" The next morning we found
ono Of the trees, but day after day we vainy seek
q crocodile. My friend remembers song of
Geibel's, about German musician who played
his violin by the Nile till the crocodies came
out and danced around the Pyramids and in his
despair would also purchase violin, if any were
TO be had in Stout. have alligators the
Mississippi. and take the disappointment more
easily. The dome palm differs from the coum-
nan date-palm in the form of its leaves, which
are fan-like, and IN having branching trunk
The main stem divides few feet from the root,
each OF the branches again forming two, and
each Of these two more, till the tree receives
broad rounded top. The fruit hangs below in
clusters, resembling small cocoa.nuts, and has
sort of gingerbread flavor, which is not very
agreeable. When fully dry and hard, it takes
polish like ivory, and is manufactured by the
Arabs into beads, pipe bowls and other small ar.
ticles.
We approached the mountain of Aboufayda
with strong and favorable wind. Here the
Nile, for upward of ten miles, washes the foot
of lofty precipices, whose many deep assures
and sharp angles give them the appearance OF
mountains in ruin. The afternoon sun shone
full on the yellow rocks, and their Jagged PIN
nacles were cut with wonderful distinctness
against the perfect blue OF the sky This noun
tain is considered the most dangerous point on
the Nile for boats, and the sailors always ap-
proach it with fear. Owing to its deep side
Rorges, the wind sometimes shifts about without
moments warning, and ii the large latesn sail
is caught on the wrong side the vessel is instantly
overturned. During the passage of this and
other similar straits, two sailors sit on the deck,
holding the sailrope, ready TO let it fly in the
wind on the slightest appearance of danger. The
shifting Of the sail is delicate business at such
times, but we find it better to trust to our men,
awkward as they are, than to confuse by at
tempting todirect them. AT Gebel Shekh Sand,
the sailors have custom of throwing two or
shree loaves of bread on the water. believing
that 1t will be taken up by two large white birds
and deposited on the tomb of the Shekh The
wind favored us in passing Abouiayda; the Gle
opatra dashed the foam from the rough waves,
and in two or three hours the southern corner of
the mountain lay behind us, leaning away from
the Nile like the shattered pylon of temple.
Before sunset we passed the city of Mania
lost. whose houses year by year topple into the
running flood. The side next the river shows
only halves OF buildings, the res, of which have