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

10 be plowed for the spring crops,
f,,r;h black loan, and produces rice,
| m,ize suearcane and miliet- mere anu ''''''
-, re blown over II, and large spaces are
- -, - a sort Of coarse, wlry grass. Inc
e.u.aos arc miserable collections of mud huis,
I'M, tho date palms WHICH shadow them and the
strings Of camels that slowly passto and fro rem
der even their unsightliness picturesque. In two
or three places we passed mud machines, driven
by steam, for the purpose of cleaning the Canal.
Ropes were stretched across the channel on both
sides, and large number of trading boats were
obliged to halt, although the wind was very
favorable The barrier was Withdrawn for US
Franks, and the courteous engineer touched his
tarbouch in reply TO our salutations, as we shot
through
Toward noon we stopped at village, and the
Asian went ashore with Ibrahim 10 buy proyl-
.ions, while the European walked ahead with
his fowling.piece, to shoot wild ducks for din
ner The American stayed on board and stud
led an Arabic vocabulary. Presently lbrahim
appeared with two fowls, two pigeons, pot OF
milk and dozen eggs, the cost OF which was
about thirty cents. The Asian set about orepar-
ing breakfast, and showed himself so skllliul
that our bark soon exhaed the most savory
o9o,e When we nicknd M Frr>paa" no
had only two hawks to offer US, but We gave
him delicious glass of milk and a breakfast
which he declared perfect. We ate on deck,
seated on a mat pleasant wind filed our sails,
and myriads of swallows circled and twittered
over our heads in the cloudless air The calm,
contemplative state produced by the coffee and
pipes which lbrahim brought us, lasted the
whole afternoon, and the villages, the cane-felds
the Moslem oratOries, the wide level OF the Delta
and the distant mounds OF forgotten Cities passed
before our eyes like the pictures Of a dream
Only one of these pictures marred the serenity
of our minds. II was an Arab burying-ground,
on the banks ofthe Canal-a collection of heaps Of
mud, baked in the sun. Atthe head and foot ofone
Of the most recent, sat two women-pad mourn
ers--who howled and sobbed, in long, piteous,
despairng cries, which were most painful to
hear. | could never imagine that anything but
the keenest grief could teach such heart-break-
ing sounds
When climbed the bank at sunset, for walk,
the minarets of Atieh, on the Nile, were visible
Two rows Of beautiful acacias, planted along the
Canal, formed charming arcade, through which
we sailed, to the muddy excre:cences of the
town. The locks were closed for the night, and
we were obliged to halt, which gave us an op-
portunity of witnessing an Arabic marriage pro-
cession The noise of two wooden drums and a
sort of fife announced the approach of the bride,
who, attended by her relatives, came down the
bank from the mud-Ovens above. She was
closely yelled, but the Arabs crowded around to
get peep at her face No sooner had the three
Franks approached, than she was doubly guarded
and hurried off to the house of her intended hus-
band. Some time afterward | assembled the bank
to have nearer view of the miserable novels,
but was received with such outcres and menac-
ing gestures, that ! made a slow and dignihed
| retreat We visited, however, the house of the
| bridegroom's father, where twenty or thirty
| Arabs, seated on the ground, were singing an
epithalamium, to which they kept time by clap
| ping then hands
| Next morning, while eur ras was getting his
permit to pass the locks, (tor which four official
signatures and a fee of thirty piasters are neces-
sary) we visited the bazaar and purchased long
tubes of lasmine-wood for our pipes, and vege-
| tables for our kitchen On all such occasions
we detailed Seyd, the tall Nubian, whose ebony
| face shone iesplendent under snow-white tur-
| ban. to be our attendant. The stately gravity
with which he walked behind us, carrying bread
and vegetables, was worthy the pipe-bearer of
Sultan. whole squadron OF boats was wait
ing at the locks, but with Frankish mpudence,
we pushed through them and took our place In
the front rank The sun was intensely hot and
we swested and broiled for full hour, in the
midst of horrible tumult Of Arabs, before the
clumsy officers closed the last gate on US and
| let us float forth in the Nile
II is the western, or Canopic branch Of the
river which flows past Atfeh. II is not broader
than the Hudson at Albany, but more muddy
and Shiny from It's recent overflow than the Mis-.
sissppi at New Orleans, and It's water is no less
sweet and wholesome than that of the latter
river. After leaving the monotouous banks of
the Canal, the aspect of its shores, fringed with
groves of palm, was unspeakably cheerful and
inspiring. On the opposite side, the slender
| white mnarets of Foyah, once a rich manufac.
turing town, sparkled in the MONDAY sun.
fresh north wind from the Mediterranean SLOWLY
pressed our boat against the strong current.
while the heavily laden merchant vessels fol
lowed IN our wake, their two immense lateen
sails expanded like the wings of the Arabian
roc. We drank to the glory of old Father Nile
IN cup OF his own brown blood, and then called
| lbrahim to repleniSh the empty chibouks. Those
who have become disguised with tobacco under
the form OF cigars, or been nausealed by the
fumes OF rancid German meerSchaum, should
be told tina; he Turkish pipe. filled with Lata.
kieh, IS quite another thing. The aroma, which
YOU nhale through long Jasmine tube, topped
with soft amber mouthplece, Is fragrant as
roses and refreshing as rpe dates. | have no
doubt that the atmosphere of celestial musk and
amber which surrounded Mahomet accorlinr 10