Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-02-23
4 LETTER FnOM CAIRO.
Joel 4. SperrY Writes an Interes sting
Epistle From Egypt to a Friend in
This City.

} DEL 4. SperrY Writes an 1nteres ting
Epistlo From Egypt to a Friend in
This City.
Mr.. Ssligmsn Zunder of the National
Savings bank received letter from Joel
A. Spsrry, who is now travelling in the
orient, of which we are permitted to print
the following extract. The letter is dated
Cairo, January 80, 1893:
After very pleasant trip Of eight days
and half We were abreast of Gibraltar,
where spent few hours in that famous
stronghold of old England; and 1t would
seem that no power on earth could ever
wress 1t again from it's present owners.
Two thousand guns look every visitor in
the face as he approaches the fort. It is
a curious old place with much mixed
populstion-Spanish, Englieh, Moors, Afri-
cans. and all with their peculiar dresses
and languages standing out 80 distinctly
that there was no installing their
nationality. Altogether it was quite
study, aud I must not forget to cay that
Pat" WAS slso there, as natural as life.
Once moro we are on our way on the Medi-
terranean for Naples, where we stopped
for few days; we sailed through this in
land sea, around which so much of the
worlds history has been written and where
nations have risen, dourished and persisted
in the march of time, and have left their
unmistakable marks.
Naples is certainly a large and interest-
ing city, full of historical interest. Mount
Vesuvius always more or less in state
of actual turmoil, except at this time,
whan it is not very active. Some lava is
flowing through always, and st night, one
can see from our hotel window the bright
light which the red hot lava is throwing
Off have not been able to go up to the
crater, as it is too cold. The mountain il
now covered with snow; in fact, winter
has been very severe all through Europe
this season. We found that we need as
much heat in our rooms as we would at
home in November. This is the site where
once the famous Pompeii and Herculaneum
stood, which furnish 30 much historical
lore. The buildings, which have been
buried for eighteen hundred years under
the ashes of Veeuvius, some are still pre-
served in a wonderful manner. There is
wonderful amount of culture and art dis
played still, which has been recovered
from these buried cities. The amount of
this display at the museum at
Naples nroof t 80 great tns t azaDi it is is
those great cities had a marvellous taste for
culture and art. 1t is impossible to begin
to describe them In this letter, as volume
would be necessary to do justice to this
subject alone.
We left Naples for Alexandria on the
18th of January, and after a very pleasant
journey of four days we arrived at our
destination. Alexandria YVES founded by
Alexander the Great, and 1t is the gate Of
all traffic from the Indies to the Aediter-
raEesn ports. 1t was formerly the grest
seat of learning aud culture where that
great library stood whose wanton destruc-
ton by the Mohammsdans has done great
injary to the worlds history. If it
had not been for the destruction of |
that valuable library much valuable
history might have bssn obss!ned in refer
ence to our Bible history. am stopping
here at 6rst-class modern hotel, with all |
the comforts that could be desired Eng
lish is the prevailing language here and |
one feels SIS much St hons here as he |
would in America, and in fact wherever |
tho English language ts spoken, and the /
Anglo Saxon race carry with them their !
style of living, thers is comfort for our
American tourists.
Accompanying this letter was beau:i-
full view Of Pusilipo, Egypt.