Hal's travels in Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land : a twelve months' tour during which he saw many wonderful things and a vast deal of fun . grew perceptibly less atevery onslaught. When the old woman was ex-hausted and nearly ready to fall, a young, athleticwoman, about the size of a jackass, and almost asstout, came to her relief, and continued the war inthe same strain, until a man in authority approachedand put an end to the fun. At the close of this HAL S TRAVELS. 267 quarrel we hurried to our boats, and floated dowathe river. It is now the fourteenth day since we left progress
Hal's travels in Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land : a twelve months' tour during which he saw many wonderful things and a vast deal of fun . grew perceptibly less atevery onslaught. When the old woman was ex-hausted and nearly ready to fall, a young, athleticwoman, about the size of a jackass, and almost asstout, came to her relief, and continued the war inthe same strain, until a man in authority approachedand put an end to the fun. At the close of this HAL S TRAVELS. 267 quarrel we hurried to our boats, and floated dowathe river. It is now the fourteenth day since we left progress has been slow, head winds havinggreatly impeded our course. Our amusements andpastimes coming down have been about the sameas when going up—shooting, running, jumping, andkicking up our heels generally. Yesterday beingSunday, our little party of twelve met on board theHiawatha, and while you were sleeping and per-chance dreaming in Huntsville, we worshipped Godin the old home fashion, with prayers, and hymns,and spiritual songs—the astonished Arabs standinground and looking on with wonder, as we bowedbefore tlie throne of THE PTRAMinS. We are now irettiiisr in tlie neighborhood of thepyramids. Already thoy begin to loom up in the 268 hals travels. distance, and the head of the great Sphynx is peer-ing above the sand-hills; hut as the wind is strongagainst us, we shall not reach them before to-morrow,perhaps. After I have seen and climbed some ofthem, I will write you another letter. Yours, etc., Hal. iials travels. 200 LETTER XXVI. PYRAMIDS TO JERUSALEJI. Prepare for a long stride—from the Nile to Jeru-salem—for tins letter iimst cover all the time andspace intervening since my last letter—which, if Iremember rightly, was closed late one evening,many days ago, as we floated down the Nile insight of the pyramids of Sakhara and Dashore. Itwas the next morning after the close of that letter,I was aroused early by my friend Smith, (who is al-ways up with the lark
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