The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-10

clapped their hands, dogs barked, donkey
boys shouted, and we enjoyed our ride
and their merriment. Here we met seve-
raj English pilots, who gave us a hearty
grip of the hand. Among them was one
from the Island of Guernsey, named Will
liam Lihou, and when we named several
IGuernseymen in Kenosha county and
among them the name of Ozanue, he i'm
mediately said they were millers former
lily, and were we'll known to him when
he was boy.
Our stay was about twenty hours, and
we left for Port Said,-5 miles-by the
Egyptian mail steamer Maruzza, q little
cookie shell of a boat which runs through
in ten hours, for fare of twenty-three
francs. Although the day was hot the
breeze which prevailed rendered our trip
comfortable. Port Said, like Ismalia, is
built in the desert and has q growth of
twelve years, and now contains popula-
ton of 5000, consisting of French, Ital.
ians, Germans, Russians, Greeks, Arabs
and Egyptians, but less attention has
been paid to irrigation than at Ismalia,
the attention of the people being more
devoted to trade with the shipping of the
various nations, which throng the harbor.
Our hotel was kept by a Frenchman, at
Ismalia ditto, at Cairo by German, and
all of them are about as good as the aver
age of Italian hotels. Early in the morn
i ing we all went in company with a
Frenchman to take bath in the harbor
We enjoyed the swimming about half an
hour, but before quite completing our
toilet one of our comrades was seized
with fainting which rendered him entire
tirely helpless for half an hour. We laid
him on the deck of an old boat near by,
and rubbed him until he was sufficiently
recovered to regain the hotel IN the
course of the day we embarked for Jaffa,
in Syria, on the Egyptian steamer Mira,
which we reached in sixteen hours-fare
thirty francs-four cabin passengers only.
but deck load of Arabs.
At Jaffa the steamer anchors mile
from shore, and dozen boats or more,
each manned by five Or six Arabs put off
for passengers. About three francs are
demanded to be set On shore, and one
franc taken. The scene among the boat
men, pulling, hauling, fighting, wrang.
ling and loud shouting, is Undesirable
"a scramble among New York hackmen
lis a paradise compared it. We all in.
tended to embark in the same boat, but
we were separated from our comrades in
descending the side of the steamer, and
went ashore in different boats. When
within a few yards Of the landing the
boatmen began to be clamorous for more
money. We were on the lookout for
tricks, and told them "not bit" till
they had set US on shore and carried our
luggage into the custom house. They
were stubborn and would not land US.
We raised our umbrella to protect us
from the sun, and intimated we could
remain as long as they could, and there
were six of them They still clamored
for money, but seeing us determined
they set us on shore and saw us safely
through the crowd into the custom house.
when three or four of them demanded
franc each, as we had expected, but we
had found that a stern determination was
what would carry us through better than
compliance with their demands.
Jafa is the ancient Joppa, the seaport
from which Jonah embarked on his cele-
brated whaling voyage some years ago,
when fleeing from his duty to 90 and
preach to the inhabitants of NineYeh, and
also the port at which Soloman is said to
have landed his RATS of timber for the
ltemple-the cedars OF LeDuAou, sent by
Hiram, King Of Tyre. Tradition or his
tory informs US that the banks were yerv
steep and the seamen assisted each other
up by clinched hands, but the banks have
been so much reduced at the present day
that such an operation is unnecessary It
is still, however, difficult port to land
from, there being no harbor. A reef of
rocks which are nearly submerged at
high water, extends along parallel to the
shore, and but short distance from it,
forming natural breakwater, through
which there is but one practical passage,
and that scarcely wide enough to admits
boat without partly drawing in the oars
Behind this reef the water is COMPARE
lively still, the width being three OF four
rods in extent. 1t was here the boatmen
attempted to compel payment before
landing us. The city contains about g.
| 600 inhabitants, and makes very con-
spicuous show from the water, situated as
it is on the side of hill, the summit of
which is crowned with the citadel, but
on landing and passing through the dirty
narrow streets, we are not anxious to take
up residence there. The chief custom
house officer is a humping big Nubian
negro, blacker than midnight. He was
very polite to US, and merely went
through the ceremony OF an examlna-
ton. @1a
It was in this city that Peter recalled
Tabitha to life, and here also lived
"Simon, the Farmer" on whose housetop
Peter was praying when he had vision
and where the men sought him who were
sent from LYDIA by the captain of the
italian band. The house is still shown
smear the seaside" said to be the same, but
the old Arab who occupies 1t is never