The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-08-21
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'GDI4HQOXE& 1hAN "a CaA0 AAAAA1 u
j lkeH hM u tiy(l in greatness the
anch{kItnM5id the Rha1hoha and
the ftolemfeR. Modern Egypt cannot
IN = tbe 3'iSbef 81 its' Inhabitants, tor
Diodorus tells us that the latter cpn,
taiR6dSO, 800 toMls and villages, while
Herodotus says that in the reign Of
Amasis there were iii Egypt 10000
cities. What successive soyereigns,
however, from Sesostris to the caliphs
failed to effect, Of accomplished only in
part, has been completely achieved I'm.
der the rule of the Khedive BY the
opening of the Suez' Canal, while AL
e1amdria md Cairo are fast becoming
cities of palaces, and the wealth Of the
country is every day increasing.
Western prejudice attributes the
present ignorance of the Mussulman
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med is bar to all human progress.
Any one, however, who visited Egypt
ten years ago, and could now see the
vast improvements that have been and
are. stllbeingo made by the Khedive,
would at once have his prejudices very
much modfed if not altogether re-
moved. / IA Wofld'seR the harbor Of
Alexandra, the finest, probably, in the
world, crowded with the shipping of all
nations, with a new breakwater and
new docks in course of completion,
warehouses filled with cotton, grain
and yotAers agricultural produce ready
for EXPORT, railways IN operation Or IN
course of, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in
fact, the signs Of increasing civilization
and prosperity. He would see Alexan-
dfia more like q European than an
Eastern city, with its magnificent build
ings and its nplace des 7Go1suls," that
exceeds inI size and beauty any square
to.be found in Europe. He would see
the land, irrigated by The Niles over
flow or BY means of machinery, every
where teeming with rich crops of wheat,
maize, barley, beans and peas, clover
and fax, rice, sugar-cane, tobacco and
cotton, coffee, indigo and madden; the
gadensS producing apricots in May;
peaches, plums, apples, pears and carobs
in June; grapes, figs and prickly pears
in July; pomegranates, lemons and
dates in August; oranges in November,
and the mulberry and Seville oranges
in January. In old times we know
there was "corn in Egypt" and cotton,
too, Of the best description. Even six
years ago there were not less than two
hundred steam-ploughs at work in cot
ton cultivation. Every mechanical aid
to production has, in fact, been made
use Of and the result is an enormous
increase Of wealth, both to the people
Il s4salee i travs,, Il Egypt is
fit pefng, I A new bridge has
been recently built by the Khedive over
the Nile, 80 that travellers can now
60 direct in carriages from their hotel
tofhe Iyfanids without being obliged,
as formerly, to cross the river in boats
and finish the excursion on camels or
donkeys. The old "dahabeah," or Nile
boat, y giving way to the comparative
y luxurious Nile steamer, and the
charms of that dreamy Epicurean life,
floating up and down the great river,
viii soon become memory of the past.
No more encampments beneath the
myriad stars and the wondrous sky of
an Egyptian night, amidst the labyrinth
Of pillars, obelisks and fallen temples
81 Luxor or Karnak!s Instead Of, as
heretofore, passing the night on land
under q tent, the traveller now sleeps in
his comfortable bed on board the Khe-
diyehy stesmer, and -"doesy the Nile
ID three weeks; instead Of three months,
as in the Palmy days Of the dahabeahs.
During the winter Of 1871, before the
steamers began ito ply, the price asked
for frstclass boat was from $3.50 to-
b001 3 month for three or four months;
while now the voyage-585 miles
from Cairo 10 Philae, . few miles above
the first cataract. and back again, can
be made by the passenger steamers on
The Nile belonging to the Khedive ad,
ninistraaea II ! costsof 1920, includ-
ne steamer. living, guides. and all
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