Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-10-31
Jenson's Travels.
Ln1TER no. LNvf.

belng Quarantine prisoner on BOARD
the Austrian steamer Thalia, lying of
Bcyfoui, Syria. ! have more time to
read and write than care Tor lust now,
and alter persuing some literature on
Egypt ! ietl impressed TO Gull few
items for the NEWS in addition to what
! have already written ] will explain
that sailed from Port Said, Egypt, IN
the evening Of "Wednesday. June 10th,
bound Tor Syria aud Palestine, aud ar.
rived OF Beyroui the following day at
? O'Clock p. M. The ship and all on
board were almost Immediately put
under ten days quarantine on account
OF coming from Egyp, where cholera is
raging a, the present time From our
place Of anchorage We have beautiful
view Of Bcyrout. a city Of about too co,
inhahitanis, and The mountains Of
Lebanon, the higher SUBMITS Of which
are still covered with the snow Of las,
winter Villages arc seen on the lower
% ountain slopes everywhere. On the
morning Of our arrival oA Bcyfcut, We
had a good glimpse Of Noun, Carmel in
Palestine, as we passed by; also the sites
Of old Tyre and Sidon Of Bible lame,
lying on the Mediterranean coast and at
the foot Of the Lebanon range.
W. II. Davenport Adams, Ia his
Egypt Past aud Present." opens his
narrative Ia the following language:
OF all the countries Of the Old
Roman Empire Egypt is perhaps the
mos, attractive both lot the student and
the traveller. Time has clothed Il with
a strange and solemn charm; has spread
over IL, 10 to speak, m atmosphere Of
mysterious romance, and the mind can.
not but be impressed with awe and
wonder which eontempla,es lis lphinxes
and H. pyramids, It's colossal statues
and huge obelisks. is monument OF a
remote antiquity TO which the antiquity
Of Greece and Rome is but thing OF
yesterday. Long before the ceefoPs
founded Athens. long, long before an
Eruscan colony sowcd At Alba Longa
the first seeds Of imperial Rome, and
long before Abraham walked with
angels In the plains, NJ Mamfe, Egypt
was studded with great cities. and had
developed a complete system OF civil
Eiuou You may trace back us annals
for some four thousand years before the
birth OF Christ, aud many Of is docu
meets are undoubtedly the most ancient
MEMORIALS OF human skin and labor
existing in the world We are nc
customed to think and speak Of the
Hebrew patfiarchs as the worlds gray
ioioiathefs. but Ia truth, Egypt was 4
powerful and opulent empire even In the
days OF Joseph, and while Jacob aud
his sons still tended sheep IN the grassy
soliiudes OF the Asiatic plains. II was
In the Egyptian schools Moses was
tfaiHed TO become the lawgiver OF the
Jewish people. Its pyramids were ris.
ing on the bank OF the Nile At an epoch
coeyal with that OF Abraham aud isaac.
We see then that Egyp, was the
cradle OF the worlds civilization.
Thence Greece derived her art, her
literature, her science; and, improving
them IA the light and iulncss OF her
own exquisite imaginaiionS. handed
them down to imperial Rome whose mis-.
sion |, was to diiiuse them over western
Europe.
And such as Egypt was in the dawn
OF human history, such Is Il now. Ia
many important respects, no land on the
face OF the globe has undergone 80
little change. True Il Is that is palaces
are masses Of rum, half buried In sand;
that OF Memphis, and Of Thcbes and
Karnak only the shadow OF their former
glory survives, that in the seat OF the
PhaTaohs and the Ptolemys sits the
descendant OF an alien race. But then
consider that lis pyramids survive al.
most uniniufed, that Is language re.
mains; that the Nile still rises aud
swells with annual regularity; that the
animal lie teemiug on rs banks Is the
animal life worshipped, loved OF dread
ed, three thousand years ago by the
subjects OF Rameses; that the khamsin
"a hot south wind still scorches the
meadow land with hot fierce breath;
that beyond the narrow belt OF verdufc
which the bright river trayeTsed still
spreads the boundess yelloN expdnse VI
the dfeary desert, that the husDandman
still finds his su,lcnancc aud support In
The palm and cullivates his little garden
OF leuks and other vegetables; that the
creaking water wheel Il piled now as Il
was piled In the days Of Nectanebus,
consider these things, and own that
monotony IS written everywhere on the
lace oi the land.
Egypt occupies the northern corner Of
the African continent whtre Il is linked
to that OF Asia by the lsthmus OF Suez
aud separated from that Of Europe by
the waters OF the Mediterranean. IL
stretches inland from thai old hihto ic
sea (which ior ages has bten one OF the
| principal channels OF the worlds com
/ mcrce) to the hrt cataract OF the Me,
/ that OF Assonan. the ancient SVEN: or
from the parallel Of latitude 81 az to
| to that oil a. 3 north. It's ca,trfn
boundary Is formed by the Red Sea, ON
the vest il Is hotdeTed by the ever
| thllting sands OF the Llbyan Dcsuf'.
| Following the track OF TIE Nile, We may
/ compute Us length at about $40 null +:
| rs breadth may be measured by tllt OF
the Nile river valley. Tor the cultivated
/ teugurs does not extend beyond tue
Units marked by the year inun atoms
Z of that nycL Three iuurihs OF the
| Egypt shown upon the maps are a
| rocky sterile waste, and except the val
| lev already spoken OF the only cult.
waited and hlbiiable portion Is found In
Lower Egypt, or the delta, an area Of
between 4. 100 and 600 square miles.
Tue average wldln Ui The Nile Valley
| according 10 Nj Adams. Is M to The