Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-06-21


That soft summer sunshine down into your heart;
tef you can do so-Oh! make it an Eden
Of beauty and gadness-remember tls wise,
Twill teach you long for that home you needing
That heaven of beauty hey ond the blue skies!
Make your home beautiful-su,e it's a duty
Call up your little ones, teach them to walk
Hand in hand with the wandering Angel of Beauty.
Encourage their spirits with nature to talk.
Gather them round you, and let them be learning
Lessons that drop from the delicate wings
Of the bird and the butterfy-ever returning
To Him who has made all these beautiful things
Make home hive, where all beautiful feelings
Cluster like bees, and their honey-d bring;
Make it temple of holy reveaings
and LOVE It's bright Angel with g shadewiDg wing"
Then shall it be when afar on lfe's pillows
Wherever your tempest-tossed children are fnng
They will long for the shade of the home weeping willows
And sing the songs which their MOTHER had sung
/ Rambling N Africa.
| THEBEs, Upper Egypt,) Feb. 20, 1860.
The charm of the Nile atmosphere for the invalid is
its freedom from dampness. Take that away from its
list of attractions and Egypt has to commend
to the seeker after health than most other countries of
the same latitude The early evening is often, may
say usualy-a that the most glowing imagination can
conceive SOFT warm delicious the moon when vsble)
and her attendant host OF heaven put brilancy
which the sky Dino other land surpass and you float
along the sparkling bosom of the worlds most cee
brated river, amid blaze of light and luxury of eli
mate whose charms almost intoxicate you with sense
OF dreamy delight But the night grows cooler it ad
vances and the morning, without OvercOat posi-
lively unbearable. Until arriving here have the
same clothing that | am accustomed to in New York,
the middle of the day. find only occasional ncon venience
doubt, indeed whether there is any such thing
escape from sudden changes OF temperature. Nor To-
deed the air and exercise obtained during Nile trip
uneXceptOnable. Strong winds common during the
day, and at such times the air full OF sand and DUST
the first from the desert and the latter from the piles of
sun-drled filth and garbage by which every village is
surrounded. -
Exercise can be had on shore while the crew are
lacking their progress at such times being from one to
two milo hOur huty nd
all hands, crew and passengers, must hurry board
and when sporting passenger is of two or three miles
engaged in hunting at such times, there often good
deal of delay and sometimes looks and emphatic
words In Arabic from your dragoman his engagement
is by the trip On the other hand, if you travel by the
day, both crew and dragoman often unite to make it
long possible AS to exercise all know that to be of
benefit it must be regular, and the Nile passenger will
lind his as regular the 1O1nd. A good boat is
desirable above many things and when contract was
read and heard that to have jolly boat"
reVeied IN antic patton of great increase of muscular
strength and of great destruction to the ocks of geese
and ducks near which jolly should bear when
the big boat could not spare time to deviate from
her I" onward and upward course. But l wasn't
very jolly when | saw that the "joly was
clumsy, awkward boat, with Oar locks composed
! OF peg and string, and occupied by chicken and
pigeon coops, goat and some straw don't mean to
say that this was trick of the dragoman for, after
having something OF Nile navigation, l doubt
whether decent row boat ever built in Egypt. AS
to exercise on your boat, ten feet of promenadng is
about The limit When the sun is hot, as is the case
usually during four hours of each day. your deck
have no awning because while lacking 1t increases the
labor of the and decreases the speed and when there
is wind 1t is In danger OF being ripped up" The in
valid who is anxious for opportunity to spend Win
ter on the Nile, If be believes this account, Judge
for himself to the chances for improving his health
thers will feel atter the trip just most do after
building house taking wife" that their expe-
rence has amazingly fitted them tor second enterprise
of the kind.
But the reader must not fancy US dull or dsprited
during this week OF head winds Far from it. Head
winds in going up the Nile are the travellers blessings
Then is the time TOR hunting and all those long shore"
pleasures which do much to make glad the memories
OF Nile trip. Game is abundant though usually there
IS only one species easily taken, which is the pigeon
They are OF the kind usually domesticated in America,
and IN their own houses private property, but in the
fields, where they are found in thousands they the
property OF any marksman who can take them The
few hundreds killed by foreigners, nothing in
parlson with the ratio of their increase Their houses
occupying the second story of the mud habtatons OF
the natives, constitute, after the palm groves the
most picturesque objects of the village. Rows
OF water jars with their mouths just large enough tor
pigeon to enter built in the wall, each containing
one nest Sticks also built in the wall for the birds
to rest and morning and evening they covered by
thousands Of the eathered residents Our table has
been pretty we'll supplied with this SORT of game We
also obtained one wild duck after plentiful expenditure
not quite so clear, the Major and Mr. s. both parti-
cpated We have seen nyrlads OF geese and ducks, but
usually they are very reserved in their intercourse with
foreigners Several times when the guns unloaded
they allowed our boats to approach quite share
my gun with Major W.. on the Minnehaha and my best
chances always when he has it, though once while
cleaning It, and with both barrels full of water
upon flock OF geese almost enough to the CAB
blers wink.
Our upward trip has also been diversified by won
HpPfn Lol L.
down what supposed was hawk one afternoon, but
which Achmet said was eagle, who came swooping
over the boat, near the shore when reloadng the
ramrod was SO delighted that it jumped out of the barrel
and eaped into the river never tear to rise again..
My felowraveers seemed to think this good Joke but
on the next day but one Mr. S. having Just loaded a
worthless gull or ibis sailing past on whom be
et inspired to exercise his SKILL and forthwith without
stopping to draw the rod from the barrel sent it wbiz
zlng alter the wheWinged aerial navigator frightening
him considerably and getting nearly kicked himself
Since tben in attempting to draw charge from his gun
with MIR. It's rod be pulled the screw off, leaving it in
the gun, and imagining his charge to be quite SMALL $50
small that 1t would send the wad out at frst) he
fired 1t into the floor of the boat sending the shot an
inch and half until it struck spike while the screw
went TOO lar ever to be again. He bought iron
mounted ramrod at Benisoe, full foot too long. Mr.
IT'S is now an inch too short, and make my gun avail
able by the aid of the Majors cane
But had other experiences than these during this
week OF head winds and cams In the cool OF the day.
when the sun fast declining, but while it verg
ing on to high noon the frozen pavements of New
York it pleasant to sit the deck and feel the soft
air of this cime watch the fading sunsets as
they curtained the West Egypt is poor in goods of
this world and poor scenry, but rich in the atrac
tons of clear atmosphere and gorgeous sun painting
There not the variety of Italy, since clouds are rare in
Egyptian sky but there is soft and delicate colorng
whose like few other lands can exhibit ALI around the
horizon there comes mellow, rosetinged haze bordered
by the deepest blue, while along the West in the full
glare of his parting light there hangs vail of such
WOn0rOus COOrinp that il almost a fin,