Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-10-31

tue beautiful NAltNN ~ ~. -.
~ roses burden the alr win llagianse
and every peasants tiny NOOK o. kly,un ,..
affords supply oil leek', gallls, ~ NJ ''' y
and eucumbers. Nature, however y
much more eenialln Upper Egypli apd
a recent traveller declares II Impossible
10 raint a more pleasant ideal OF fum
mcf land than the Egypt above inches.
The soil OF Egypt IS remarkable TOT
rs fertility and 10 Is fertile because u con
sist. ol nothing more or less Than thc
der osits Of lis liver waters. Nile mud ~
az described hy ST. iiilarc, Is a sort o.
brown earth emphalicily called terfc a.
Egypi. 4 consists OF rather SIN cay
but tan extremely irc gram u ~
very solt aud unciuuus 20 the toueh, us'
solves readily 10 water AMI possesses
scarcely any od0r. When dncd DC
comes very hard, us may be seen ~ tue
deep cracks which iuifow the GROUND
some time after the waters have retired
The trees Of Egypt ore not only Jew
Ia number. but OF few speclcl. first
and foremost must be ranked The date
palm vhici Is for the Egyptisn what the
bread fruit tree l. iof the iolynesian, OF
rice for the Hindr. II supplies MIN
with food and co hing. and house and
furniture: II Is his nl.in all. his siaN his
W. alih, his vofy lie scarcely inferior
In inn ortance Is rs cungcncf, the doum
OF dom PAIN. The afcacia OF sot tree
OF tie Arab, h also common; Il
furnishes the skittim VOID Of the Biblc,
u the Mimota Niloiica Of hotani,ta, and
ext,t slyely adapted Tor ship building
and for similar puposts. Md TO III m
the sycamore and the tamariik and OUT
cnumt liion OF the principle trees Of
Egypt - complete.
The animal lie OF Egypt is far more
varied aud abundant There are tue
breeds OF the horse, the ass and the
camel, the last named being the iavofite
beast OF burden. The giraffe has been
driven into the wilder districts by the
unfesting advance OF modern civilza.
ton. Toe hippupotmus IS only found
In the far reaches OF the Nile. but the
hyena, the wild dog and the iaekai still
pfowl at night through the streets OF the
iarge towns. The ichncumon the siofk,
the heron, the purple goose and the
sacred ibis are almost a. common now
a. In the oldcn time though the I'M
reasoning passion Of English travellers
for making large bag, Of game threat
ems to extepatc them from tue land.
Egypt rs Mr. Howard Hopley la
his "Undcr Egyptian Palms" remarks,
Is wonderfully popu.ous with the leather
cd tribes; their division and sub division
ate infinite From the smaller tiidlings
that dscll Ia tue mimosa whose plumage
gorgeous with al rainbow hues, abso.
lutely bewi ders you with It's beauty, up
Trough the ranks OF wild and water
iowl, to those big yulturcs and august
eagles which perch soltmni on desert
peak or crag. or skim lazlly alOlt IN
mid air. there are end css gradations.
Iheu tameneas appears TO be extra
ordinary. You may almost walk into q
Hook Of pigeons on a slu0blt field, which,
when Il rises around you, IS 80 dense as
10 cast thick shadow over acres OF
land. Water wagtails and hy'catchcis
On your deck will leiflessly tfot up 4
pick n fly Oh your boot. "A ctoN vii
parade Is carton under your very nose.
a curious ieatheTed deuixen OF the
Nile valley Is the crocodile bird (ihe
lrochilus Of Hefodotusl which acts as
Kind OF parasite 10 hat hideous rep
tile aud warns II Of the approach VI
any intruder Worthy OF note too Is
Phafal's hen or the Egyptian vulture
(Neophron peTcnoptuus, which, with
trailing WINGS and dropping tail, sits
bfooding like IN evil genius over the
ruiucd monuments Of by-gonc splendor.
And every grove abounds with Senegal
doves and We pigeons, iaunly hoopoes
bright green bee eaters, SAfdinean war.
blefs, great spotted euckoos, etc, while
the corn fields are peopled with quails.
the river banks with martins, aud the
desert borders with noisy chats Rafer,
but still not uncommon, are the rosy
La haNs.sN Nhs.
egret, the pelican, the cuTleW, the
spoonful, the snipe, the shoyeller and
the cormunnL
Toe extreme dTyness OF the climate
Of Egypt eminenly conduccs 10 the
preservation oil natural substances from
decay, aud In the rock toombs aud
temples the traveller looks astonished
upon human bodies, which, buried two
~ three thousand years ago have de-
fed corruption. The clcaness Of the
atmosphere lends curious dislinctncss,
or a remarkable sharpness to every
object IN the landscape, so that the out.
line OF aTchitnve aud column seems
traced against the azure OF the sky as
with pencil.
The curse Of Egypt is the khamsin.
that fierce southern wind which In April
anu May blows, as It's name indicates,
tor nifty days, no, as the blast OF a
furnace, shfiveling the skin, parching the
lips, binding the eyes with minute par.
tieies OF sand, and depressing the spirit
as with the omen OF some unulteTable
evil
The population OF Egypt seems to
have increased very little since the days
Of antiquity. Az present Il number
about 100000 people. According H.
lacilui, the Roman historian IN the
reign oil Rlmeses, Il contained 7oo, coo
men OF the military age. Al This rate
the entire population would be about
g. 500 600, ALLOW 10000 ioT erroG add
one third for slaves and strangers, and
the total viii amount to nearly 5000 ooo.
Egypt proper Is divided into two great
districts, namely, Musr'el. Bahri ur lower
Egypt, aud II said, or upper Egypt,
which together comprises 3gl, s4o eng
llsh iquaru miles According % the
census OF MAY. Srd, 1851, tie population
amounted 10 o, 200 5SI souls, Of whom
Js65,664 were in lower Egypt, and
2.s4o,7l7 In upper Egypt. OF this total
J $50, sos were macs, and S4to,o73
females. The number OF foreign resi-,
dents were, Greeks, 1891; Italians,
rs COS, French, 1910; Auslnans, S,o22;
Elgilsh, 6.uS, Germans, g4S, other
nitlonalitts AII6; making total OF
O., $50 foreigners. In 1854 the railway
sys en- vi Egypt had total length Of
i276 miles, and the telegraph belong.
INK TO the government Of 7,7o7 miles.
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