The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-29

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no figure she yet has tongue, II poss.-
BILE livelier even than the proverbiaily
glib one Of her sex.
The coloneis lady and Judy O'Grady
Are sisters under the skin.
The oxlike buffalo proceeds clumsily
into the water and lies down. That Is
bis way of taking bath. Nothing but
his nose is visible above the surface.
His brown skinned, black draped mis-
tress orders him to come out. He does
not bulge. The woman shouts voclfer-
cusly. Still he pays no attention. 1t
Is necessary to his health that he shall
be thoroughly cooled off In this glorious
Nile current. Yet more fearsomely
shrieks the black robed Egyptian wife.
She calls on all the old time divinites.
the cat headed goddess the dog headed
god and the okapi headed one, to curse
that obdurate brute, but the obdurate
brute Is not moved hairs breadth.
The woman cannot we'll wade In after
him. Her drapery Is too voluminous
for that. She can only wait till the
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he grunts and comes deliberately out,
numbering up the steep banks, all un-
needing the feminine blows that are
rained upon his tanks.
To the steamer landings come laden
camel caravans, with great bales of
goods and baskets of figs and dried
fruits. That, too, the camel caravans
have been doing 1000 or 5000 years,
only in the ancient times there were no
Nile steamboats, or Egyptian railways.
A camel is not at all the patient, gentle
creature you learned Of in your school
books. On the contrary, though per-
haps generations of bad treatment
have made 1t So 1t Is stupid, stubborn
and perpetually complaining aloud.
When camel Is made to lie down to
be loaded, it groans and RACES aud1bly.
as If it were about to be killed. When
it Is made to lie down again to be I'M
loaded, it makes the same whining,
grooming, scolding. protesting noise. as
though nothing was right with 1t any
how and whatever way 1t was treated
1t was imposed upon. 1t is always kick
ing mentally, always making known
that it is abused and imposed on, yet
always putting up with things as they
are. The camel is like some women
one meets-always complaining of In
justice, but always submitting to IT,
In the caravans the pack camels are
marched In a string. A rope or strap
around the nose of one is fastened to
the animal ahead of him, In turn an
other is fastened to this one, and SO they
move onward. A camel in the act Of
lying down is perhaps the awkwardest
animal In creation. A writer describ-
ing the process says: "Creakingly, with
many unoiled joints, the camel col
lapses in sections; grumbling, he rises
again and allows himself to be led by
the nose by the smallest child"
Other things than camels groan and
creak perpetually as they work on the
Nile banks. These are the rude pump
ing wheels. Sometimes in the early
light their complaining is the only
sound that vibrates above the silence.
There are two kinds of pumping ma
be called machines. The larger kind is
called 'tsaggier." 1t is wheel with
chain of earthen pots attached. and
the lever that turns the wheel Is work
ed by OK or buffalo power. like the one
In the illustration. The other variety
of water raising apparatus has chain
of leather buckets attached. and 1t is
operated by mere man power. A boy
may larrup the oxen Ground their path
at the saggier machine; two or three
men must sweat and bend to the work
ing of the other, called "shadouf."
Some of the Egyptian natives are
brown skinned, the brown occasionally
merging into almost black. Other na-
tives are copper colored, like American
Indians. giving FEASIBILITY to the the
DRY that Egypt. the most ancient, was
settled from America. That at least is
the newest theory of science. The ma
tives, men and boys, go often more than
half naked about their work. their
skins shining like FURNISHED bronze or
copper. You see sometimes on shore
slim, graceful brown boy wholly naked
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