Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1867-05-03

vegetables carrying them to market with
twenty or fifty bisl,lcks or shillings tied to
her nose and ears and her husband riding
on a donkey with his bare legs dangling
about the poor animals legs, with striped
blanket over his shoulders, and his shoes
in his hands lest they might drop from his
feet, and be lost. Most of the peasants
will take off their shoes when they are
walking. and carry them in their hands,
A poor peasant has to work for from TWEEN
tyto forty cts. per day and his wife and girls
will get about as much as he will. so there
is not much prospect for a man to hire out
to work in the gardens, but if man has
money enough to buy a few acres of land
and dig Il well. and then he can set out or
angc or lemon trees, and after three years
when they will! bear well, he will begin to
be rich man; or man that could come
out here with a vessel from one to two hun
dred tons, and freight from this place to
Alexandria, in Egypt. or to Beyr7rt or
Smyrna, or Constantinople. would make
money very fast. and could have As much
work as he could do the year round it
would either want i vessel of light draught
of water so that she could come inside of
the breakwa,er 1t this place: or she wants
heavy chains and anchors SO she could ride
out any storm. The storms we have here
in the winter are very much like the Sept.
line gales of the states, but the great thing
is what kind ola freight will vessel bring
here: we want boards but it will hardly
pay to bring them from the United States,
for we can buy the hard pine boards here
for about three or four cts foot and it
would be hard to get them from the states
at that price. We want some soda or sal
aratus, and a-press or mill for sugar cane !;
VIC want some long handled 5roons. for
any handle.
But once here vessel would have
enough to do, and would get good pay to
carry grain, cotton, grapes, figs. pome :
GRANTEES. water-melons, olive-oil, sessen-oil
honey, oranges. lemons, &c. sc. And a
great many sheep are carried from Jaffa
to Alexandria and think vessel would
do we'll to come here and stop if she could
get freight to come with. But would
not induce any person to come out here at
present to settle OH the land unless they
have something to give themselves start
with after they get here.
am not doing a big business. here. but
there is sickness enough here but the pco-
pie are very fraid of spending their money
for medicine. The Mohamedan thinks that
the prophets will cure them. and the Arabs
generally think doctor is paid by some
missionary society or sent from God and
therefore should work for nothing or at
least the same as they work for, twenty-five
cts. a day, but some think differently and
are willing to pay DR.. but l tell you mos,
of them do hate to part with their money
keep little office in the city where stay
about all the time and have no chance t.
write for am surrounded with Arabs from
morning till night. The Arabs are gener
ally very harmless people, if they quar-
rel among themselves they will be prctt,
sure not to hurt one another and II ay,
no. heard of one Of them quarrelling or at
tempting to quarrel with an American since
we have been in the place. l send George
to school where there are nobody Blu
Arabs, forscholars. teachers and all, and H.
,nos round among them for hours at a tim
all over the city of Jaffa and have neve
known him to get hurt but once and ther
he says the boy did not mean to hurt him
George is learning to talk Arabic quite fas
and mean he shall learn to read and writ
it too, although it was thought that W,
were going to place Of ignorance whel
We came to this lace, yet let me tell vol
that you will hardly find decent boy in
Jaffa but will speak two or three language,
and SOME of them five different languages
some boys will speak Arabic, Greek. He
brew. French, Turkish, Italian. German
and English, Of course not very well, and
boys too that are nothing more than com
mon. want you to send this letter te
Louisa in Trescot and they must sc.id it tt
Mrs. Thompson, and give my love and re
spccts to all inquring friends and tell them
that don't write very often but when do
write l sond a long letter. Wife joins i,
sending her respects to all, and says sh,
will write the next letter. Write all o
you as often as you can. I addressed thi
letter to my friend when began it so vo,
will all have share In it, if you can find
out.
! You need not send the letters in the car,
of the American consul for we have non
at the place.
Respectfully your Brother.
e. X. IGGINS,
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