Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-29
LADY TRAVELLERS IN THE EAST
What Two English Women Saw.

!
What Two English Women Saw.
Two English women, named Beaufort,
have recently made pilgrimage to Egypt
and Syria, and publish the narrative OF
their journey under tie title of Egyptian
Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines." These
ladies are sisters, and single. They have
evidently travelled with their eyes wide
open, and have seen many curious phases
of oriental life which are forbidden to the
steruer SEX They are true English wo-
men, able to walk miles in n day, to run,
to swim, to shoot, to indulge in all the out
! door sports which are considered health
full and proper in England, and ex-
ceedingly improper for the feminine Gle
/ ment in America. The younger Miss Beau
fort seems to have been peculiarly attract
i've in the eyes of an enamored Arab
| Sheikh, for we find in one of the London
| literary Journals this reference to II Curl
Gus passage in her story:
"These lady travellers are young, evil
| IDENTIFY; and not ill-fnvored, If one may
| form conjecture from the mare comics
sions of the writer of this work, who is
I plhlull very lluSl lLShLSo AZ Wv I'''e]'J
| fers made TO purchase herself and her sis
ter on tue part of enomorea Seeikhs
| She does not inform us what color her eyes
are, but had they been black she might,
according to one of her confidential anec-
dotes, have fetched eleven thousand pias-
tres and according to another, her skill
with the rifle so charmed ruttianly old
Sheikh, with four wives already (ot one OF
whom, however, he was heartily sick and
tired, and promised faithfully to get rld),
that his bid Mt last reached the enormous
amount OF ten camels.
Being women, they gained ready ACCESS
to the sequestered retreats OF tue hnsterh
females, and give us this excellent picture
of the
LIFE OF WOMEN IN THE EAST.
The gayest sight we saw was the Sweet
Waters of Asia, to which lady Bulwcr
kindly took us, on the great day of the
wear the Friday after Kourban Bairam.-
| This is the Summer Hyde Park of Con-
stantinople-the Sweet Waters OF Europe
being only in fashion during the winter
session: there is no beauty in the spot,
save that of 81 few fine trees, beneath
whose shade the women sit the whole day.
The place was excessively crowded, and
one could not have better opportunity of
studying Turkish women; they did not
. seem TO Dt ENORMOUSLY NuIlhC ILG plNIhASS
drawn of them by those of our modest
poets, and describe them as fair and mod
est pearls, sitting like snowdropS enclosed
in one of Wards patent sealed cases, tue
damp dews on the INSIDE of the glass an-
swering to the jalousieS through which the
almoned-shaped eyes CLEAN in half-vciled
light.
Here the gay Haunting flowers of the
Bosphorine harems were sitting in q close
" packed mass upon the green sward, un-
der the shade of the oak and the elm, the
co!ors jumbIed into each other, like the
nattprn of n brilliant Partisan carpet,
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White wells. almost dazzling in its confused
hrirhtness. while the harsh, birdlil,e. cease
lass chatter or tho ladies, tonpues was AL
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