. The redemption of Egypt. fromfour to five hundred pounds—for thirty miles a day. Thesecamels are making three journeys a day of ten miles there andback; the shekh gets five piastres—about a shilling—for eachjourney, and he pays the drivers four piastres—tenpence—a Camels with Cotton. These men are Bedouins, as you see ; they live for the greater partof the year in the desert, and only come to the Delta in theautumn to do this carrying work. The cotton crop, as it comesfrom the fields in these bags, is on an average one-third cottonand two-thirds seed—that is, by weight. As we turned aw
. The redemption of Egypt. fromfour to five hundred pounds—for thirty miles a day. Thesecamels are making three journeys a day of ten miles there andback; the shekh gets five piastres—about a shilling—for eachjourney, and he pays the drivers four piastres—tenpence—a Camels with Cotton. These men are Bedouins, as you see ; they live for the greater partof the year in the desert, and only come to the Delta in theautumn to do this carrying work. The cotton crop, as it comesfrom the fields in these bags, is on an average one-third cottonand two-thirds seed—that is, by weight. As we turned away from the camels and walked back to the house for lunch, Mr. S added, As the work of the factory is, roughly, to prepare the cotton crop for exportation, we are only THE DELTA AND THE COTTON INDUSTRY 51 busy for half the yeur, that is, from the end of September to theend of March or the beginning of April. During the rest of theyear all that we have to do is to put the macliinery and the factorybuildings into repair, and to handle any small deposits of cottonthat are occasionally held over in the growers stores. Andnow, he said, as we reached the foot of a flight of steps leadingto a balcony above, you will be glad to think of something elsefor a little Avhile
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