Toward the sunrise, being sketches of travel in Europe and the East, to which is added a Memorial sketch of the RevWilliam Morley Punshon . CHAPTER VIII ALEXANDRIA TO THE HOLT LAND. Alexandria Landing—The Donkey Boys—The Streets and Bazaars—Khedives Palace—Pompeys Pillar—The Ancient City of thePtolemies—Library—Arab Quarter—Drives—On Shipboard Again—Aboukir Bay and Nelsons Victory—A Lovely Sunset—PortSaid—Landing at Joppa—An Ancient City—The Holy Land. We have seen the lions of Alexandria—we haveexhausted all its sights, and sounds, and smells. Onlanding in Egypt, the first thing demanded is y
Toward the sunrise, being sketches of travel in Europe and the East, to which is added a Memorial sketch of the RevWilliam Morley Punshon . CHAPTER VIII ALEXANDRIA TO THE HOLT LAND. Alexandria Landing—The Donkey Boys—The Streets and Bazaars—Khedives Palace—Pompeys Pillar—The Ancient City of thePtolemies—Library—Arab Quarter—Drives—On Shipboard Again—Aboukir Bay and Nelsons Victory—A Lovely Sunset—PortSaid—Landing at Joppa—An Ancient City—The Holy Land. We have seen the lions of Alexandria—we haveexhausted all its sights, and sounds, and smells. Onlanding in Egypt, the first thing demanded is your passport, and the next thing backsheesh. Havingsafely got through the hands of the officials, you nexthave to run the gauntlet of the donkeys. All thedonkeys of Egypt—of all colors, white, black, mouse—have come down to meet you ; and all the donkey-boys are there to drive them,—shouting, gesticulating,laughing, capering, urging their beasts upon you, if youwill not get upon them. We drove first to the hotel, and then secured a guideand carriage for the day. First, to the bazaars—what 162 T
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