New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-19

.fe,I had tried a number of words with bra
him. TO get the pronunciation, made holder es-
saws. One day when the sailors were engaged
in most vociferous discussion. | broke upon
them with: What is all this noise about stop
instantly" The efec, was instantaneous; the
men were silent, and Seyd, turning up his eyes
IN wonder. cried out: d" Wallahl nallah! the
Howadii talks Arabic " The two copper-aced
FeIabs thought it very amusing, and every new
word learned sufficed to set them laughing for
half an hour. called out to fisherman, seated
on the bank: 80 Fisherman, have you any
fish ?" and he held up string of them and made
answer: 40 HowadJi, | have" This solemn
form of address, which is universal In Arabic,
makes the language very piquant TO foreigner
The construction OF the sentences, so far as |
have learned, is very simple, and the common
colloquial Arabic does not seem near so difficult
as had been led to expect.
During our second night on the river, we passed
the site of ancient Sais one of the most renowned
Of Egyptian cities, which has left nothing but
few shapeess mounds. The next day we passed
Negileh large town halfway between Alexan-
dria and Cairo. The country was in many places
still wet from rum the InunuauUu vnieh Is the
l.,eos. tho. has occurred Tor many years The
Fellahs were blowing for wheat, with single
buffalo geared to sharp pole, which scratched
up the soil to the depth Of three inches. This
shallow blowing, am told, is rendered neces-
sary on account of the saline character of the
subsoil Fields OF maize and sugar-cane were
frequent, and noticed also some plantations Of
tobacco, millet, and species of lup6, which is
cultivated for its beans The only vegetables we
found for sale in the villages, were onions, leeks
and tomatoes. Milk, butter and eggs are abun-
dant and very good, but the cheese of the coun
Try is detestable. The habitations resemble ant
hills, rather than human dwellings, and the vii
lagos are dep6ts Of filth and yermin, on the most
magnificent scale. Our boat was fortunately
free from the latter, except few cockroaches.
Except the palm and acacia, without which
Nile tourney would lose half It's attractions, !
saw few trees Here and there stood group Of
superb plane-trees. and the banana sometimes
appeared in the gardens, but there Is nothing Of
that marvellous luxuriance and variety of vege-
tation which is elsewhere exhibited in the neigh
borhood of the Tropics
On the evening of the third day we reached the
town of NadiT and, as there was no wind, went
ashore for ali hour or two. There was a cafe
on the bank-a mud house. with two windows,
adorned with wooden frames, carved in the
Moorish style. A divan, built OF clay and white
washed, extended along one side OF the room
and on this we seated ourselves cross-eggcd
while the host prepared the little cofiee-cups and
filled the pipes Through the open door we saw
the Nile, cleaning broadly under the full moon
and in the distance, two tall palm-trees stood
clearly against the sky. Our boatmen, whom
we had treated to bou@a, the Egyptian beer, sat
before us, and Joined in the chorus OF song,
which was sung to entertain us. The perform
ers were three women and man who played 3
coarse reed flute One of the women had a
tamborine, another a small wooden drum, and
the third kept time by slapping the closed fingers
ofthe right hand the palm of the left. The song
which had a wild, rude harmony that pleased
me, was followed by dance, executed by one
of the women 1t was almost precisely similar
to the fandango, as danced by the natives OF
Panama. and was neither graceful nor inter
esting On our return to the boat light wind
had sprung up, but the rais persisted IN remain
ing, whereupon the Asian took the helm and
kept it till Nadir was cut OF sight. The grim
Hassan then resumed his place.
The next day the yellow hills of the Libyan
Desert, which in some places press the arabic
land of the Delta even TO the brink Of the Nile
appeared In the west. The sand is steadily al
vancing toward the river, and near Werdan has
already buried grove of acaciaS as high as their
first branches. The tops are green and flourish
ing, above the deluge, but another year or two
will overwhelm them completely. We had
thick fog during the night, and the following
day was exceedingly hot though the air was
trans aren't as crystal. Our three faces were al
ready of the color of new bronze, which was
burned into the skin hike enamel, by the reiec-
ton from the water While my friends were
enjoying their usual afternoon kieg, secret pre-
sentiment made me climb TO the roof OF our
cabin had not sat there long before deserted
two faint blue triangles on the horizon, far to
the south. / snapped the kief short of with
shout Of "the Pyramids - which Seyd echoed
with "Eltlran Faraooa p was as much i'm
pressed with the view as expected to be, but
completely nullifed the Europeans emotion
by trassating to him Thackeray's description Of
his first sight OF these renowned monuments.
The same evening we reached the northern
point of the Delta, where We were obliged to re-
main all night, as the wind was not sufficiently
strong to allow Us TO pass the 5arroge. Siagu-
larry enough, this immense work, which IS among
the greatest undertakings of modern times, Is
scarcely heard Of out OF Egypt II Is nothing
less than a damming Of the Nile, which is to
have the effect OF two inundations 4 year, and
double the crops all along the valley Of the great
river Here, where the flood divides Itself into
two main branches, which fnd separate mouths at
Damleits and Rosetta. an immense dam has not
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