Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-10-24
Jenson's Travels.

luuc 9th, 1890 AMI TOOK l'uh W"
through the city without guide OF ION
key. Passing through Rue DO Muisi'
one Of the principal streets Of the city,
found myself az the eastern boundary
and at the loot Of a spur OF The Mountain
Hills, which crossed, and then descend
ed to- verilablc city OF the dead known
rs the graves OF thc Kh'l.'s' Here
lie the nobility Of Egypt Tor many
generations, many Of them in costly and
ornamental buildings which are Crowned
by domes in regular mosque style
was permitted to enter The finest build
ing could sec. alter the dooikceper had
carefully tied a pair OF sandals on my
feet. The Arab attendant took great
pains to tell me sll a5ou, II in an
guage Of which knew not a single
sentence; but Wa led TO understand
that was in the open tomb Of one OF
the late Khedives oi Egypt From the
graves Of the Khali's, ] walked 10 the
great citadel, where iell IN couvcfaa'
ton with some English soldiers one OF
whom (lNnliam Cox said he wasfelaied
to Thomas c. Pai,en. Of Salt Lake iiy'
lie desired very much TO 80 to Utah
himself. and hoped to have the privilege
Of doing so after he had served bis
term as a soldier. Two Of the boys had
recently died with the cholera, aud !
was shown the cholera camp on a high
roof within the Enclosures OF the citadel.
At present, however, i Is wiihou, ten
ants, and was told that the two deaths
was caused by the unwise conduct Of the
soldiers themselves, who had mixed
with the natives In their unhealthy
quarters, and had drank bad whisky
with them.
From the citadel returned TO the
hotel by way OF the street called Boule'
ward mohammed Al, paid my hotel bill,
drove to the station In a carriage. and
left Cairo by raj At HIS a. m. Arriving
at Ismailia, changed cars for Port Said,
distant fifty miles from lsmailia by rail,
where | arrived at $50 p. M, and put
up at a hotel At lsmailia a fellow pass
enger-a Cenman-yolun,arily took my
part against an impudent Arab who in'
sisted on acting as my guide, though !
had told him repeatedly that ! did not
want him. My German friend. whose
name was Constantin Fix, seeing that
the fellow tried TO impose upon me,
arose, fired with indignation, and de-
lihefatcly knocked the Afab down.
The station police was soon on the spot.
but my TREND. who talked good Arabic
was able to give satisfactory explana.
ton, and the impudent native scampefed
Oh with a sore head instead Of the
money which he wanted TO e1toft from
me. Port Laid Is a new iowa which, as
: have stated In former letter, and had
40 exisiance before the building Of the
Suez ship canal Il has regular streets,
one small artificial park, some respeei'
able aud good sized buildings. but
otherwise no particular attractions And
Il u only important as the Mediterranean
port OF the Suez canal, where all canal
dues arc also paid BY south bound ships.
A hne statue Of NJ. Ferdinand dc
Lesseps. TO whose ingenuity the town
owes iia existence, adofns the public
park. Port SAID gets IL supply Of fresh
water from the Nile through previously
mentioned canal.
Everything alive that have seen Ia
EIypt relies upon the Nile Tor Its yery
existence. II certainly 4 one Of the
most remarkable rivers Of the world,
aud as the memorials OF antiquity, 10
the shape OF the tombs, temples and
monuments Of old Egypt. lie ON ili
banks a short sketch ui that historical
river may not prove unintefcsiing to the
readers OF the NEWa. Miss Harriet
Marlineau, who recently wrote a book
on Egypt, remafks3
Everything In Egypt, Including Nc,
itself. aud all that lie includes, depends
on the inccsaant Struggle which III,
great river maintains against the iorcei
Of the desert. The world has witnessed
many conflicts. but no other so unrest
ing, so pfo,fae,ed and 80 sublime as th,
struggle OF these tao gigantic powers
the Nile aud the Desert. the Nilc,cve
Young because pefpetually renewing IL
youth, seems 10 the inexperienced ey,
10 have no chance with is stripping fore,
"a David against Goliath-against IA,
desert, whose might has never relaxed
from the earliest days I'LL now, but IN,
Goliath has not conquered H. Nov anC
then he has prevailed for a season, anc
the uomblefH whose destiny hung ON ia,
event have cred out that all was over
but he has once more been driven back
and Nilus has risen up again, TO do wha
We see him doing IA the sculplufes-bind
up his water plants about the throne o
Egypt From the beginning the peopl,
OF Egypt have had everything to hope
from the river, nothing from the desert
much to fear from the desert, aud little
from the river. What their tear may
reasonably be, any one may conjecture
who has looked upon a hilloeky ex
panse OF sand, where the little iefboa
burrows, and the hyuna pfOWls al night
Under these hillucks 90 temples ano
palaces, and under tue level sands Q
whole city, The enemy has come if
rom behind and stitlcd aud buried 1t,
What is the hope Of the people from N,
riVcr anyone may witness who, at the
regular season, secs The people Etoupct
on the emiueutca watching the adyanc
lng waters, and listening ior q c voice U
the eTier, or the boom OF the cannon
which Is to tell the prospect or event o
the inundaiOn Of the year The Nj,
was naturally deihed by the old IN
habllanla, Il was a god 10 the mass
and a, least one OF the manifestations o
Dieiy 10 tue pnestly order As Il Wa
The immediate cause OF al they Had, ant
all they hoped 'oT-thU creative poWe
regularly al work before their eyes
usually conqurrinK though occasiunalll
checked D. WAS TO them the good DBwtf