The innocents abroad; . aris. But finally Jackfound an ice-cream saloon, and that closed investigations forthat ev^ening. The weather was very hot, it had been many aday since Jack had seen ice-cream, and so it was useless totalk of leaving the saloon till it shut up. In the morning the lost tribes of America came ashore andinfested the hotels and took possession of all the donkeys andother open barouches that offered. They went in picturesqueprocession to the American Consuls; to the great gardens ; to Cleopatras l^eedles; toPompeys Pillar ; to thepalace of the Yiceroy ofEgypt; to the Nile; t
The innocents abroad; . aris. But finally Jackfound an ice-cream saloon, and that closed investigations forthat ev^ening. The weather was very hot, it had been many aday since Jack had seen ice-cream, and so it was useless totalk of leaving the saloon till it shut up. In the morning the lost tribes of America came ashore andinfested the hotels and took possession of all the donkeys andother open barouches that offered. They went in picturesqueprocession to the American Consuls; to the great gardens ; to Cleopatras l^eedles; toPompeys Pillar ; to thepalace of the Yiceroy ofEgypt; to the Nile; tothe superb groves of date-palms. One of our mostinveterate relic-huntershad his hammer withhim, and tried to break afragment off the uprightNeedle and could not doit; he tried the prostrateone and failed; he bor-rowed a heavy sledgehammer from a masonand failed again. Hetried Pompeys Pillar, andthis baffled him. Scattered all about the mighty monolith weresphinxes of noble countenance, carved out of Egyptian granite as. VICEROY OP EGYPT. THE EELIC-HUNTER. 613 hard as blue steel, and whose shapely features the wear of fivethousand years had failed to mark or mar. The relic-hunterbattered at these persistently, and sweated profusely over hiswork. He might as well have attempted to deface themoon. They regarded him serenely with the stately smilethey had worn so long, and which seemed to say, Peckaway, poor insect; we were not made to fear such as you;in ten-score dragging ages we have seen more of your kindthan there are sands at your feet: have tliey left a blemishupon us ? But I am forgetting the Jaffa Colonists. At Jaffa we hadtaken on board some forty members of a very celebrated com-munity. They were male and female; babies, young boys andyoung girls; young married people, and some who had passed ashade beyond the prime of life. I refer to the Adams JaffaColony. Others had deserted before. We left in Jaffa , his wife, and fifteen unfortunates who not only had nomone
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