New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-25


wadi Halfs, rather thin nun the risk Of sending
them on by land to Assouan, in order TO End
better market. Egypt is quite overstocked with
esmes at present, but two animals Of such ex-
eellent quality as mine would always bring fair
price. The journey, however woald have been
trying, AMI as found persons willing 60 pay me q
sum for them which, though much below their
actual value, secured me from any loss, let them
70. Achmet conducted the business for NE,
for the bargaining lasted at least two hosrs,
before either purchaser succeeded in slowly strag-
Cling up to decent price. must do the men the
justice to say that they after ward made every ex
ertion to cheat me, in the way OF counting moaey.
snd Offering bad pieces, aud at last gave large
pile Of copper coin, which, when il was counted.
lack. ID two pisstres of the right amount. Whcs
all was finished, delivered Abou-Sin into the hands
Of his pscally new master, with a souowiu heart,
for the old fellow and were good friends. Had
be known we were to be separated, am sure thoss
large black eyes Of his would have dropped few
tears, and that capscious throat gurgled outa
sound of lamentauon. Achmet threw his aras
around the beasts big head and kissed him tender
". was about TO do the same thing, whom re-
numbered that the neyer-swesting skin Of dro-
medary exhales not the freshest OF odors aad pre-
feued csressing him with my hand rather than my
lips. So farewell to Abou-Sin and may he never
want douua and bean-vnes, nor complain uader
too heavy loads and should he die sosn, tor he
is waxing in years. may some son OF his strong
lons be there to carry me, when next visit Gen.
trail A6ica
Mod ali IL orJin Arah x,tl "A
n,tcd only for being the head Of navigation on the
Nubian Nile. There were six or seven boats In
port, some of them loaded with gum and ready 10
start for Assouan. They were all aekkers, or
trading boats, built Of heavy wood and rot TO DO
moved down stream against a stroag head wind.
therefore engaged the fery-boat ia which had
crossed-a light, open boat, manned by two Nu-
bisn boys. The rails made frame of sticks asar
the stern and covered it with palm-mats, TO serve
as a cabin. The open hold was turned into a
kitchen, and taken possession of by my two men.
There was barely room enough for all of US and
our baggage, and fat sheep bought, as provision
for the voyage, but as proposed being gloIiously
lazy, to make up for the foregone tolls, needed
no more.
The morning after my arrival at Wadi Eiafa
oil was ready. few children came dosa 10
greet me with the hateful word backsbish,"
which had not heard for three months and hoped
never to hear again, but lew Arabic oxclsna-
tons soon put them to flight. We showed away
from the beach, followed by the cries Of dozsa
lazy sailors, who also wanted backshish for saying
saiddm" at parting. stretched myself out
on my bed, deck, aad lay looking on the reced-
ing shore, where my camelmen and camsls
(AbouSin still among theml were encamped.
Ruis Rarnadan took his station at the helm, and
the boys Piled their oars actively, 80 that We
soon lost sight of Wadi lIalfa. All afternoon ws
glided slowly down the stream between rich palm
groves and grain-feld'. The appearance of thrih
and fertility. which the country presented was
most agreeable after the waste fields Of Dongola,
and the unproductivc rocks and sands Of tho IN
tsmediate districts. BY sunset We had nads
such good progress that there was every hope Of
reaching Abou- Simbel on the morrow.
There was no wind during the night, and hsboys
worked bravely. About two hours after midsight
was awakened from a deep sleep BY the shock AZ
the boat striking che shore. | opened my eyes
and saw, as lay without moving my head, huge
wall of rock before me, against which six enor-
nous statues leaned as they looked from deep
inches cut in it's 'front.' Their solemn faces wers
touch d by the moon, which shone full on tho cliff,
and only their feet were wrapped in shadow. This
lines Of deepcut herogly phics over the portal 81
this rocky temple were also filed with shadow
and painted legibly on the gray, moonht rock Be-
low them yawned the door-a square Of complete
darkness. A little TO the left. over a long drift
J,eat .Io f,nu fha Of nj M
ly to the wa.er's edge, peered the mitred head o
a statue of still more colosss proportions. I
gazed on this broad, dim and wonde, fi picture fos
a moment, 30 awed by its majesty that did not
ask myself where nor what it was. This is soma
grand Egyptian dream, was my first thought, and
closed my eyes for few seconds, to see whether
it would vanish. But it stood fast and silent as
ever. and knew it to be AbOu-SimDel My ser
wants all slept, and the ras and boys aoseiessly
moored the boat to the shore, and then lay down
and slept also. Still | lay, and the great statues
looked .oemnly down upon me, and the moon
painted their kingly nomens and banners with yet
darker distinctness on the gray rock. The river
made no sound below the long grass stirred not Q
blade at the foot Of the crags, and the slopes Of
sand were white and dumb as snow. | lay in toe
deep q repose FOR thought, and was NOS thsn
conscious how grateful was such silence IN Ma
ture, while the moon held up that picture before
ne. II might have been two minutes or twenty,
before the current slowly swung the stern Of the
boat around, and the picture as slowly shifted
from my view, leaving instead the Southern Cross
in its shrine Of stars.
Ia the morning. found that we lay at the foot
Of the smaller temple. quietly waited for my
cup Of coffee, for she morning reality was infinitely
less grand than my vision Of the night. | then
climbed to the door and entered. The interior 10
not large nor imposing, after one has seen the tenn
pies Of Egypt. The exterior, however, is on such
a colossal scale, that notwithstanding the want OF
proportion in the different statues, the effect