Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-20
EGYPT,

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Ar SHEPHKRD's HOTEL, CAIRO,
March II, 1894.
Arrived ct Cairo yesterday March 16).
In the afternoon employed guide. First
visited the cathedral and got bird's-eye
view of the Cairo region and the Nile. The
cathedral is on hill, which IL In that re-
spsct very like Edinburgh castle. and from
the ramparts are English cannon pointed
on the country now held by an army OF
occupation q 600 English soldiers) The
English will never surrender this country, |
a. Il L. the key to their Indian empire. We
visited several mosques built before the
time of Jesus Christ; also "Joseph's Well"
which IL three hundred feet deep q. O., the
guide said so). We took in the river drive
and visited the several steamers and sail
vessels that navigated the Nile during the
winter, but ii IL too late now for them and
az the railroad takes voyagers up two hun
dred miles the steamers and vessels are
laid up for the season. Next day lounged
about and on the vsraudah listened to the
band of one of the British regiments; dtned
at 7:SO p. m. at Shepherds hotel. Tho
hotel IN livery swell, every one Is request
ed TO appear at dinner in "full dress"
After dinner the United States vice consul
called and invited Us to take donkey |
ride. The party consisted OF ex-Governor
Osborne and the ex-United States minister
and myself. We rode abont Cairo for two |
hours and saw the worst kind Of sights, |
getting homo about II p. NJ, not getting |
of our donkeys until We reached the |
hotel, believing II would have been unsafe |
to have dismounted. never saw
but one worse crowd and that
was at Algiers, Tor you may
remember my expedition to Pelicat Lane,
London, where came near being stripped)
These people are bad and there is no use
trying to do anything for them and the
sooner England swallows the whole tribe
/ the better, but the climate is lovely and
everything so very interesting.
Shepherds hotel IL crowded, although
| late in tho season. went next day to the
Pyramids eight miles from Cairo} with
Gessrs. Avery and Pendleton of Detroit.
| The day was hot and I remained In the
carrisge and saw my friends climb. They
mid, 416 feet, at 10 M, at which time !!
took with my instruments the shadow of
the sun. There are two Pyramids very
| near alike There are also smaller Pyra-
mids at Memphis, which are in sight from
here, but some ten or fifteen miles dis
tant. There has Just been found at SAX
hada wonderful collection of gold and
silver objects in tomb of date 1900 B.
G.. Yesterday they were put in cases In
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| for the morrow to zee them. On my re-
turn. I visited several gardens, parks and
| palaces and the Nile steamers. The steam
ers are very comfortable vessels.
have delightful rooms at the hotel,
where. for an outlook have the Armenian
chapel and beautiful grounds. The days
are lovely. The nights are cool. have
| Port Said via Joppa, 800 miles by steam
boat, then by railroad, and return to
Naples via Athens. The cholera prevails
in Oonstantinople, which prevents my 60
| ing further north. I find everything of
, Egyptian manufacture, more costly here III
, Cairo than at home. The rush of Euro
peans snd Americans to this country has
put up the price of everything of Egyptian
manufacture, 60 that articles In the line
can be bought cheaper in New York:
March 1o-The party that went to the
top of the Pyramids are lame to-day. am
D as well as can be, and am glad did moi
t climb. The Sphinx great wonder to me-
I'll Did not leave the hotel until - m. when
| went with the guide to the museum and
: saw the NEW find" at the tomb of Queer
!, tasess Hill, called the Dahab jewels, and
;, valued at 1,ooo.0 600 francs. They are
It sample of the many valuable finds in thu
J. homes of the dead. It seems that q com
. mon lsborsr was digging with spade ani
Il struck boz, which went to pieces, sne
tho whole contents were subsequently, col
leetsd from the dirt. The find was OF
March ., 1894, and o-dsy, March 10, 1894
. was deposited in the museum of Gazher
o To-day, March 10, I, an American voy
1t ager, was one of the first to gee ia reli'
!. | Of the twelfth dynasty.
~. The whole find is composed. of all kind
# of precious stones, anklets, bracelets, head
neck and ear ornament, beautifully enam
eled on solid gold in blue, green, red ant
|. almost every other known color; but
Il will tell you more when arrive.
!, have met many here whom know ant
- who know me, 90 have to behave myself
l. I am soon off for Jerusalem and expect t.
. take trip through the Suea canal.
q March 22-Hot, mosquitoes and flies
:. ten times more numerous than on Long
= wharf In the dsys when sugar eargoes ar
70 lived.
r Have finished Carlo and start via Isma
). | liz, q port about midway on the Sue
- canal, to take the Austrian steamer st Por
- Said for Jafs, then to jerusalem by rail Il
- the chief hotel, and after making e1cur
. sions to Alexandria over to Athens Il
- Jsffa, then to Naples.
!, Yesterday I rode some eighteen miles OF
- q donkey to the ruins of Memphis. After
= to Bedrasks, then took donkey and VISITED
:. ! desolate waste where saw q colossa
- statue of Rameses II, beautifully cut from
e fue solid granite limestone and lying OF
= the ground, forty-two feet long. It wears
: royal head dress with q figure of snak
!" browning the top. It has the dress of tn
times, on which lies sword. The sur
name, Rameses. Is ont thereon. Heroditu
speaks of this statue. It was found only
y who dug 1t up.
W. mart want fhrorob an Eyvpkyor
j. town, then through an Arab village and al
Q 10 through Q Bedouin camp-a vile lot
d | We then came to the Lybian desert lat ON,
;. point counting eleven pyramids,) ther
q came to Lake Kava, passing through exoa
9 vations about mile, the surrounding lane
Q covered with human bones, arriving at tn,
tomb of Aers about 1925 q. m.
Here, In that lone waste, We oame to az
lopening with door having over the ston,
9 entrance an inscription.
. The tomb was q long distance under
: ground and is decorated the whole length
on both sides of the wall in base relief
+ Egyptian, which is the story of Queer
: MsrA's life, beautifully colored and carved
= We next arrived at Maisette Bey "a pasha'i
, house, He was French ssvant who wal
employed thirty years sxcavating near the
i, house in the tomb of the Sacred Bulls
q and under ground We went with
i III OkU AIAO "lGu tOICueA 8uO
visited at least ten hugo sarcophag
in which the sacred bulls were deposited
They measured 7x11x13 feet, all solid red
: grssn. oae block is of granite and rests
on masonry which weighed about seventy
= tons. How they managed to gst1s huge
stones across the desert and into these en-
, closures IL . wonder. We visited anothe,
!. tomb, and went back to Nazstta Bsy's and
: took lunch prepared for us. never sui.
: fered more with heat; It was worse than
when We were crossing the plains west Of
;. Salt Lake. After lunch left for the rail
: road station; arrived too late, but as there
= | was another train on the opposite eide OF
the Nile from Helvsrs, we employed an Arab
, vessel to carry US over. The donkey
jumped In the same as ourselves, and We
sailed over, which was very amusing.
The sail was worth going 9 hundred
. miles to see. Sometimes the Arabs would
( Jump overheard and turn the craft, and
i then little wind would come and they
. would Get their sail, and thus we would
CROSS and reeross. These fellows have
. four times the skill that some Of our boat
men have, and could teach the best of them
f how to sail . boat. When We landed II
t was q half mile below the proper place,