. The rulers of the Mediterranean. y ceased, andthe men stood rigid, some apparently unmovedand unconcerned, and others turning and reelingin a fit. While this was going forward, and you felt asthough you were assisting at a heathen rite inwhich self-punishment was being inflicted as a bidfor Gods indulgence, two interesting things hap-pened. An officer in the English Army of Oc-cupation turned to his dragoman and cried at CAIRO AS A SHOW-PLACE 129 the top of his voice,angrily: Do youcall this worth tenpiasters? Well, Idont. Now if youvegot anything toshow me, take meto see it. This isntworth
. The rulers of the Mediterranean. y ceased, andthe men stood rigid, some apparently unmovedand unconcerned, and others turning and reelingin a fit. While this was going forward, and you felt asthough you were assisting at a heathen rite inwhich self-punishment was being inflicted as a bidfor Gods indulgence, two interesting things hap-pened. An officer in the English Army of Oc-cupation turned to his dragoman and cried at CAIRO AS A SHOW-PLACE 129 the top of his voice,angrily: Do youcall this worth tenpiasters? Well, Idont. Now if youvegot anything toshow me, take meto see it. This isntworth coming to a rank im-postor. The other thingwas the act of anative woman, whobrought her child tothe door and hand-ed it to a priest, whotook it in his arms ^and passed with it infront of the swing-ing, gasping, crazysemicircle of child was aboutthree years old, andwas dying, and themother had brouglitit there to be curedby the breath of thedervishes. As itpassed before them,the hair of some ofthe men swept its II. A SECTION OF THE PYRAMID 130 THE RULERS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN arm, and it turned its frightened eyes up to thoseof the priest, who smiled gravely down upon thebaby and bore him outstretched in his arms threetimes in front of the swinging crescent. Thefaith of the childs mother appealed to some ofus more than did the Englishmans desire to gethis moneys worth. The incident is only of in-terest here as showing perhaps why the Armyof Occupation is not as popular as it might officer was no doubt an excellent soldier—the ribbons on his tunic showed that—and noone would have thought of questioning his abil-ity to handle raw recruits or his knowledge oftactics. But in handling the Egyptian tactics donot count for so much as tact. There are several ways of reaching the pyra-mids, and it is eminently in keeping with theother incongruities of the place and time that themost popular way of visiting them is on a four-in-hand coach, with a guard in a re
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