El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-03
IDLY because the pasture wa. not as

rich.
Cairo is city of 400, 600 people, ex-
tending for three miles along the west
ern bank OF the Nile, and westward for
from to of mile. It is divi ed
into the foreign and native towns The
European residences, electric lights,
street cars and Ill of the modern co
veniences, and is a very attractive
place of residence. But the native
part is insstrikipR contrast, and built
after the order Mr.. Lumpkin had
noticed down t. e road. The English
rule in Egypt, with cannon from the
for the safety of foreigners, for the ma
tive antipathy to them in many places
10 very great. The traveller visited
the great pyramid of Cheops out from
Cairo. he went by the usual donkey
lightning express, and made the neces-
sary business arrangements with the
sheik OF the district for natives to help
him up the pyramid: The vast pile is
500 fe-t square and $50 feet high, with
In height. Two natives pulled the
travelerer up in front, and one brought
up tho rear. The latter reversed his
action on going down. and held back in
stead OF pushing. The view from the
topmost stone is glorious. Away to the
south by west winds the Nile, frineed
with It's green banks, while away to
the southeast and east lie the trackless
sands of the Saharas.
Mr.. Lumpkin went into the pyramid.
There 10 An entrance Of about feet
high; and . narrow corridor of polished
granite for rome 300 feet leads into the
ocnter of the great pile It is danger
GUS for foreigners to 20 in there
alone with the Arabs, as the latter
would not hesitate to murder him if
they thought thy could rake. anything
by 1t and not be punished. There are
many pits in the pyramid where . man
could DO thrown and no one would know
what became of him. In the center of
tho pyramid 10 large vaul,ed cham
Der with ceiling II feet high and 26x46
feet area. This was once . royal tomb.
Then further up the corridor are side
passage ways leading TO other royal
mortuaries, all averaging the same
HEIGHT, although of varying areas.
The traveller then went 500 miles up
the Nile, going 300 of this distance by
train. Al the point of boat embark
alton. he made DEPRESSION of IL miles
into the desert to view the wonderful
ruins of an ancient city there. He was
warned such a trip was dangerous, but
leaving his valuables behind, and tax
ing two revolvers and. q donkey boy,
fully. He was we'll repaid for his trip,
for such bas-reliefs he had never seen
before in all his life, even in the most
notable temples visited. The carvings
wore in fine state of pr. servation.
From the terminal poi t of the trip, the
lecturer wentov 100 Rate1 Tn, bes,'
the great city of which 20 much has
been said. He also took in the not
able wonders Of Luxor aud ,Carrac.
The road between these two latter
places WAS paved with an apparently
fmperishable. rosd of the finest stone,
and bOrdered with an innumerahla
array Of sphynxs al in nne state of
preservation. The great temple
of Osiris At Carnac exceeded
anything in the line of wonders the
traveller had yet seen. The vast aRgres-
sion of sculptured wonders was one
mile in circumference, and filed with
columns statues and sculptures that
would richly repay ono to travel the
world around to see. There were q
large number of columns IS feet in cir
and in the inner temple
were monoliRhts 81 feet high, 9 feet
square At the base and feet square at
the top. There . vast number of
sphynxs and statues of Osiris enormous
proportions and in excellent state of
preservation. The multitudinoua maze
siz. fairly dazed the lecturer as he
looked tn m over, and carried away i'm
pressions that are sunk deep into his
mind never to be erased. The wonders
of Luxor we're not much inferior, and
when the speaker finiste ed his descrip-
tive there were not . man, woman or
child In that audience but who inward
~ determined he or she would make q
trip to Egypt some day If it took in tie
last cent.
The speaker spent much time in the
museum OF Czech at Cairo, and told
the audience that if they ever wanted
to size up in . short time the resources
and productions of any country, the
thing to do was to visit the museums
of that country. At the Czech mu-
scum the traveller gazcd on the counte-
nance OF Rameses II, Ceti I and . long
line Of ancient monarchs who had been |
dead for centuries when sthe Savior |
was born. And as to Ramsses, Mr.. |
Lumpkin had seen statue Of him at |
Tbebes that weighed 200 600 tous-uot |
pounds, but tons! How tina: vast mon
olith was cut out of the mountains 100 |
miles further up the Nile and then |
70 its present position, 10
CD only knows. Mr..
Lumpkin did not stale as to wbethe r
be had asked the guide if Rsmeses was
living; or whether, anticipating Mr..
Lumpkin's visit he had left any word
Dr. mOmento for him. Mark Twain
would not have overlooked this.
The entrance Of the holy land was
from Joppa where Simon the
tanner lived. Thence Jerusalem was
by rail. The lecturer advis d
Ill who might visit Jerusalem not to
content themselves with that section
alone, but to Welt Gallillee and Sam
aria as we'll. The sights eeen in those
states or districts were very impress
tive. The alley Of Sharon was a lovely
The speaker show. d frag-
ment Of the walls of the temple at
Jerusalem he had brought back, tes
,ribed the mosque OF Omar built on
The site of Solomon's temple, the
'anctuary of the holy sepu' chur, and
ascent up the mount of olives, q very
,hilly bath in the Jordan, and his trip
through Greece and Europe back to
Boston. The latter pat of the lecture
was necessarily abbreviated, at the
close several gentlemen from the au-
1ience were dressed up to represent
yariOuR Aefatio tvDes of civi1iza tiop l.