Wilmington journal., 1874-01-23

! tS1tu lntu III one fHt ana u KING CI
leather bucket at the other. which dips
into the river. \ man stands on lit
tie mud bank and does nothing "fron
morning 20 dewy eve" but lift the
: water from the river TO the mouth of Il
trench on the bank which conveys it
into the fields. Sometimes six or eight
shadoOts are together at one wards
distance, the men all working in time
by some lnonstrous tune These
shadOofs line the banks, being fre-
! qnently not more than fifty or n hun
dred yards apart. This gives an idea
! of the number of hands employed in
irrigation alone. The costume of the
! shadoof men is quite primitive, con-
sisting of 4 cloth around the loins, and
1 sometimes, but not always, coarse
camels hair skull cap Thus they
labor from morning to night under a
torrid sun and do not appear 10 mind
it. 1t is interesting to note the dark
eLinG shade of the laborers rs You as
! cend tho river. Near Cairo they
. are copper color or Lighter; further up
they become bronzy and brown, and
! finally nearly black.
1t is interesting also TO observe the
towns and villages as you pass by
with their crowds of naked children
! I's'NtNtAAAiS3 III VIC St1tCi iilt fC1ltO "O-
men posing their water Jars graceful
/ ~ on their heads; the tt,rbaned men
smoking cross-legged along the walls
Then the mud houses Of the peasantry
! with the mosk rising with its minarets
! from among the palm trees. Some
times the latter are found in groves
under which are seen grazing clmels,
sheep ana looking truly oriental Many
of the Villages have thousands OF com
lcud mud dove cotes, where number
less pigeons, Wild and tame lodge and
. breed. They aTc kept Mp for the sake
OF the yotu = squabs, bat chiefly for
/ the guam" deposited !,v tia: birds vt
several Of the towns ! went ashore and
pas sod thr"uci, anm" uf IT." markets
, and baz.,ro. Ih.r" | s.;w thousands
of ti}e native pc;,>:tut population aud
noyc, met With the slightest lnolcsta-
, ton. The country people are j. their
primitive condition as IL co5tu,nss and
manners, but Christian is now per-
+ fectiy safe. where some years ago he
could hardly have shown himself with
ont an escort to project him.
After eight days navigation, (sicam-
: ing only by daylight,l ] reached
kcleh, aud i'll a few days my train was
ready to leave. But several interest
ing incidents happened during my
stay, OF which l will II antion only the
dinner given to me and my officers by
the British Nice-Consnl He is an
Egyptian and does not speak n word
OF English, but he is Consul, as his
father was Ior forty Years before him.
He IS Il rich merchant and his office
gives him valuable privileges. The
Governor OF the district and his Lieu
tenant-CovernOr and some other big
wigs were there. The dinner was
Il Ia I"ygW" in Arab fashion, but we
sat on chairs at the table of the usual
height, instead of sitting cross-legged
on the floor at table 10 inches high,
as the natives do. The first thing was
for Il servant to come round to each
glest with water, soap and towel that
he might wash his haDds-a very good
precautiOn as you will see, The first
course was soup, which was eaten bv
all out of the tureen, each one dipping
his spoon IN as he wanted, soup-piates
not being III order, though other lates
were. After the soup, came q fine
mutton, stuffed and roasted whole,
and very excellent dish it was. But
knives and forks are modern innoya-
tions still unadapted, if not unknown
i'll the interior. The Governor and
the Consul showed the way by tearing
eff pieces with their fingers; and IS
was rather awkward at it, the Govern
or himself tore Off good tieshy piece
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