A diary in the East : during the tour of the Prince and Princess of Wales . rades. At 12 oclock the Prince and Princess and suitedrove to Kasr-el-Nil Palace, to take leave of the Vice-roy ; the special train was drawn up at the placewhere the Viceroy received their Royal Highnesseson the day of their arrival. After cordially .thankinghim for all his kindness and hospitality, the Princeand Princess, accompanied outside the Palace Gardenby the Viceroy and his suite, proceeded to the plat-form, entered the state saloon carriage, and amidmuch salutation, the train, in charge of Betts Bey,moved awa
A diary in the East : during the tour of the Prince and Princess of Wales . rades. At 12 oclock the Prince and Princess and suitedrove to Kasr-el-Nil Palace, to take leave of the Vice-roy ; the special train was drawn up at the placewhere the Viceroy received their Royal Highnesseson the day of their arrival. After cordially .thankinghim for all his kindness and hospitality, the Princeand Princess, accompanied outside the Palace Gardenby the Viceroy and his suite, proceeded to the plat-form, entered the state saloon carriage, and amidmuch salutation, the train, in charge of Betts Bey,moved away at 1 oclock For some hundreds ofyards the line passes by the hovels of the suburb 428 THE DESERT. [chap. on the verge of which the Palace is situated. Thepassenger has fine views of the interiors of thesecabins, but, after all, what he sees is not very muchworse than the sights which greet a foreigner ashe approaches London by Bermondsey or natives just came to the door to take a glanceat the train as we rattled past, and set about theirwork as It is not all desert which lies between Cairoand Ismailia. For the first thirty miles the Huepasses through some of the richest of the wonder- iTii.] SUEZ. 429 fill soil of Egypt, where the Nile, sucked out, andscooped up, and forced along canals by incessanthuman labour, fattens the loam it has deposited,and enables the Desert to send forth crops, the likeof which cannot be seen even by the course of theMississippi. Wherever fresh water flows or falls,there stone or sand give way to green crops, andtrees, and the huts of men. Shall it be confessedthat a journey by rail tlirough the bare Desert is notinteresting? After a time, not always very long,the monotony wearies. Would it be better on acamel, such as we see there plodding along with itsdriver, making for some distant spot lost beyondthat burning horizon ? Owing to an accident to thepilot engine, the train did not get to Suez till anhour behind the appoin
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