Ellsworth American., 1876-06-01
A Tour in Egypt.

| The Egyptians have by no means sent so
| great an exhibit to this country rs they
sent to Vienna; but we must forgive them,
| taking into account the distance which
| they were compelled to come and the some
what perturbed state of their finances at
this particular moment. As one goes down
the main aisle of the Exhibition building,
| devoted to manufactured articles and the
l'general exhibit of all countries, he comes
| upon the massive front of an Egyptian tenn
pie, over which is written in hierogryphcs
an Inscription which signifies that one of
| the eldest of lands sends her greeting to
the youngest. At the portals of this MIN
| ic, temple are busts OF old fellows who liv-
! ed so many thousand years ago that | will
not bother you with history of their lives
| nor description OF their costumes. They
are much Interviewed and a good deal
chafed by humorous people who have but
little reverence for anything that dates
back of lI16. But they make no answer;
they are as silent As the immemorial Sphinx
whose photographed face looks down with
sovereign contempt and calm on the rest
| less modern crowds moving about among
the remains of dead civilization. Indeed.
the God of Silence is worshipped a little
too much in this Egyptian department, ev-
en- by the attendants, who can only give
unsatisfactory answers to the numerous
questions one is perpetually tempted to
ask, and who much prefer not to answer
at all.
These worthless all wear tn. tarbooShes
which are so common everywhere in the
| Orient, aud when accosted they lit them
gravely, listen to your question politely,
and then either say that they don't know
or else go of into Kind OF dream and do
not answer ut all. Their incapacty is per-
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from the rural districts to day fixed her
whitening eye upon me, stretched forth
her skinny hand, and, As we were standing
before some ancient tables with texts from
old parchments of two or three thou
sand years ago sketched upon them spoke
thus:
These air antiquities, amt they mister2'
"oLp" ANTIQUITIES.
eudeavored to express my belief that
their history remountcd to a period no less
remote than fifteen centuries.
'Yes? said She. contemplating me once
more with extraordinary sternness; dug
up out Of the earth. guess. Air they Old
antiquities. oldest there j.. YOU know
confessed my inability to answer this
puzziiug question. Then she said:
DO You know anything about them?
who does? BE they from some royal fam
Iy. Hey: says lie don't know. TO her
companion Maria, who earricd a huge
basket ann i'oN'h a u me contemplate
taAin~ nome an antiquity or mo- II she
c"'Id hhu some IhaI were re"I'y 'oiu.
says ne no" [ KNOW. Gur,N ne told lhe
tn'h 'hh TIME, ahy"a\. Ana she moved
on '""hIh2 a9 u l hau d'he heI pet9ohai
INJURY. because "A> hp' "AiAlh% ehcy-
cloprda ot Egyptian antiques.
Lt-t a Fh.. III lAtktftgp Iapu
'n"ni about an hour later. she did not
seem - bear uie any malice then, aud |
d'u my p"1t 1" hr'p her hnd some sand
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thr volcanoes. and So lcit her wrapt in
adnIratior OF those prculg.r Specitnrus
from th, devils work shop.
Meayre n it is. bv comparison with rich
er displays, one can form a very accurate
idea OF Egypt'S appcarulcc and resources
by reasoning few hours in this temple.
The khcdlvr has sent an excellent photo
yrauh OF Cairo. taken from the Mekatlan
monntan,, aud looking down over the
mosque ct Mehemct All. and he scene Of
The .Iauph,rr OF the NaIn2Iukrs. This
picture gives with wonderful accuracy the
local color, the Solitudcs ot the vast plain
in which th,. Pyramids stand. remote. and
colossal; the chanel of the great river;
and life iu and around Cairo proper. There
!. a very rich phoropraphic diSpjay-the
ruin. OF 'Thcbes, the temple of Karuak. the
temple OF Dender.h, all are shown. There
/, also A very large picture of the pyramid
Of Snnuaratl. which is suppo,ed TO be the
most ancient in Egypt, Nothing can b,
mar, i,pnn,ino than his gr.at mass OF sun
dried bricks. piled up when Eurupe WAS A
lnbyriuth OF forests and swarnp> and
nine hundred wears AGO. and there is no
,.d r,t,ti, H. tn. I-,,i,,.J St,,,.s th,t ante
d4rr, that Vrry vivid ideas of tn.
,,,,.,... ..,,
| Who luhabt EGyp; may be gained from
The c'ilection' which shows the veiitd or
ha!t NrlIed Watef-SirIS' the donkey ooSs'
w" crave oiu Maloiiiliieua''s ut pray e. d
rrnm tho Snpdan. the soufv boafmen from
,n. Nj. and th,. sraf officers and Other
di,,ri,aries Who surround the Nicerov or
silver and gold work of quaint tiiseree
n,ada nv the Arabs there il a large ,Ii.nlay.
'There are great numbers of p,nes. some
,,i,h ,,nrgoons hIua and orean and nnrnl.
-. e,I,ars ,,i,h wot.r hCvIs and ibe
/ loro sarnant-,rke tuhss through which
| M. oriantal dra,vs s,noL a ana ohIivior AZ
,ha Sana ti,na The siobt Of these nine,
/ al,p,vs racaus to mo n. NOuv's most rfFt.r.
,i,'a t'ai,,ti,',," r. sboys on FgvntIan ev.
ttau,rv nsrsopage nf hiGh station. living
nn IL, xrrions cc'7ch ON his hon.etop. lie
b.s in.r tsllen INTO the heavy slecp which
r'lln,vs n,tnr.Ilv nnon a lone reverie over
III III. and in his prone and defenceless
a,,i,ni. n,tarIv Jcroid of amy eue-yv or
auytbin, hnf bIissrnl rppose. one can see A
| fsir rpnrasentation of Nh. manner in which
a gooh many Of th. Mobamredap people
are throwing away their chances and all
Inwiny themselves to be distanced In the
r,c.. If modern progre.s. But The Khedlye
| nfEnyn, i. a man who iudulues in hur few
reveri.s and is endeayoriup TO awaken his
pcople from their Iethargy. Everywhere
in this Eoyptian section of the Exhibition
there are evidences of this fact.
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Now and then goes directly against the
current OF Mohammedan traditions, as he
DID some years SINCE when ne erected the
statue OF MS father, lDrahim facha' "hich
T. I" t; stahus III 'ne ~ Al - =.
sacril.Ue To erect a statue of man. but