The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-22


vagrant dogs that still haunt old
Cairo by day and night, have disap-
peared in New Cairo. And the visitors
thoughts of hydrophobia have disap-
lpeared.
Through the heart of Cairo wide
streets are being made, ana che work
| is going on rapidly and threatening to
wipe out of existence the native
houses, with their latticed balconies,
and the houris who might be imagined
to be behind them Electric trains
run in every direction.
It is now rather bad form for the
foreign visitor to ride a donkey.
Formerly the donkey and an occasion
|al camel were the only quadrapeds.
Now the carene cabs driven by drivers
who have all the voices of the Keo-
kuk hack man.
The majority of our party went up
the Nile on steamer, but we went
by rail in a sleeping car, of which
one berth is furnished every passen-
ger, with dining cars attached, instead
of going in a dahabreak as they did
when went around the world in a
book
At Luxor Assonan we found big
hotels with electric lights and all the
modern infamies, and there is even
a big caravansary of the same de-
scription at Kahrtoum. BY the side
of the first cataract there are golf
links.
The ruins of Upper Egypt are
fenced in, and a ticket of admission
to the whole of them cost guinea
(525).
Within a few months Karnak will
be lighted with electric lights, for the
benefit Of tourists who wish to have
late suppers among the ruins. As
for the tombs of the kings of Thebes
they are being let to small parties as
winter resorts.
Even the bicycle has Invaded Egypt.
In the streets of Cairo nothing is
more common than the sight of big
fat Turk riding in his baggy brooches
and a red tarboosh on an American
made bicycle. We see so many DIFF
ferent races of people here but with
all their new French American ideas
this city possesses many charms for
the traveller in its history, buildings
and street scenes.
During our stay in Cairo we were
divided into small groups under COM
petent guides to visit the Pyramids,
Sphinx. new museum and other prin-
cfpal points. A guide was furnished.
but after the second day we broke
ranks and became our own guide as
hundreds of excursionists on this
steamer have been here before. and
we visited everything. Churches.
theatres, lodges, the fashionable prom.
enade Tor Rotten Row. to the once
celebrated gardens OF the Viceroy's
palace. We were conveyed by car
riages to Pyramids of Gizeh. Great
tombs of numbers, the great Alabaster
temple, Beizonis pyramid We ascend
ed to the top OF Cairo museum. More
than two-thirds fell by the wayside,
and many that made it were prostrat-
ed from the results.
Mr. and Mrs. Connable are enjoying
the trip as well as myself, without any
sickness to date, but by orders of the
physicians, re are supplying ourselves
With grain auinine tablets, which
We must Of necessity take to ward off
an epidemic Of fever which is raging
in India and to which tourists are very
much subject.
! failed TO mention passing the
Island Of Crete where. after leaving
the straits OF Messina, upon this
island The Apostle Paul was ship
wrecked. Soon after leaving this
island we passed many boats and one
mail steamer bound for London was
reported to be making 25 knots or
near thirty miles per hour.
am not going to Jerusalem on ac-
count of taking up SO much time go
ing down into Egypt and seeing a part
Of the country in which an opportun.
lily may not present itself again.
J. D. REDO.