. William H. Seward's travels around the world. ing and bathing, and, on their return, bringinghome a domestic supply of the water in skin-bottles. At sunsetand sunrise women are seen coming in long, dark processions fromdistant towns, by winding paths, to the water-side, and, as inpatriarchal times, bearing the family supply in large earthen urnspoised gracefully on their heads. There is no lack of domestic animals among this people. Thehorse is small, but strong and well shaped. The ugly water-ox isthe beast of the plough ; the donkey is the common carrier of thecountry; while the camel not
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. ing and bathing, and, on their return, bringinghome a domestic supply of the water in skin-bottles. At sunsetand sunrise women are seen coming in long, dark processions fromdistant towns, by winding paths, to the water-side, and, as inpatriarchal times, bearing the family supply in large earthen urnspoised gracefully on their heads. There is no lack of domestic animals among this people. Thehorse is small, but strong and well shaped. The ugly water-ox isthe beast of the plough ; the donkey is the common carrier of thecountry; while the camel not only shares that labor with him, butalso labors in the field. There are immense flocks of sheep andgoats, the latter all black. It is difficult to decide which partymanifests the greater affection, the fellah for his mute beast, or 524 EGYPT AND PALESTINE. the donkey for his kind and gentle master. They are insepara-ble. The Arab is violent in altercation with his fellow-man, andoften deals a passionate blow, but he never strikes or reproaches. A WOMAN ON THE NILE. his beast. The people, isolated from all other races, show a greatfondness for birds. We have heard the report of neither rifle norfowling-piece, and every house in every town has a fanciful dove-cote with alluring twigs at its windows. Although the Arabs haveno prejudice against animal food, the domestic pigeon is held as sa-cred here as robin red-breast is in Massachusetts. Pigeons havemultiplied so much that political economists compute their consump-tion of the products of the valley at one-twentieth part. When wereason with a native on the subject of this extravagance, he repliesthat the bird compensates for it by supplying guano for the pro-duction of water-melons. OUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 525 A word now of our personal experience in the voyage. Theweather is intensely hot, and of course grows hotter as we go party, including Betts Bey, consists of four and our three ser-vants. Each passenger has a la
Size: 1286px × 1944px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury180, bookdecade1870, booksubjectvoyagesaroundtheworld
