Letters of travel : journey in the Bermudas, England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France, 1894 : in Mexico, 1896, in Canada, 1898 : in Egypt, Holy Land, Turkey, Greece, Italy and France, 1900 : in Morocco, Spain, Algiers, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Holland, Belgium and London, 1903 . children at school in a city the sizeof Cairo is a small proportion; undoubtedly manyof the children must go untaught. We were conducted by our guide to a placeon the river where he said Pharaohs daughter hadfound Moses among the bulrushes. I asked him toshow us the bu
Letters of travel : journey in the Bermudas, England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France, 1894 : in Mexico, 1896, in Canada, 1898 : in Egypt, Holy Land, Turkey, Greece, Italy and France, 1900 : in Morocco, Spain, Algiers, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Holland, Belgium and London, 1903 . children at school in a city the sizeof Cairo is a small proportion; undoubtedly manyof the children must go untaught. We were conducted by our guide to a placeon the river where he said Pharaohs daughter hadfound Moses among the bulrushes. I asked him toshow us the bulrushes. They are gone, said is a long time. I be a Christian, no Moham-medan, said he, when he saw I was inclined todoubt his whole story. Of course, I said it mustbe true, to please him. We drove through the streets of Old Cairo,the one great city of ancient times, now a ruinedand worthless place. A few of the old stone housesyet stand as monuments of former ages and somepeople still live there. The oldest mosque inEgypt, built in the days of the Prophet Mohammed,who personally aided in its construction when onearth, still stands in fair repair. It is the placewhere his faithful followers gather from all overEgypt once a year to worship in the sacred oldplace. The Nile has been instrumental in making a delta 242. WATER CARRIERS-CAIRO. of more than seventy thousand acres. It has drivenback the waters of the ocean and made a greatpart of lower Egypt the richest lands in the foot of it was brought from the interior ofAfrica and deposited at its mouth in the Mediter-ranean sea. The Nile is still at work, for everyyear about September it rises and covers not onlyits new made land, but the whole valley for morethan a thousand miles up from the sea. After afew weeks the enriching waters quietly recede andpass down to mingle with the green and saltedwaters of the ever restless sea, leaving all thefields, orchards and gardens moist and enriched,ready for a. .cher sur
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