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 . priests, have theirold bodies resurrected, and now in a fairly well-preserved condition lie in state in a beautifulpalace for this and future generations to look hieroglyphics on vegetable parchment, whichare found in these tombs are wonderfully well pre-serve
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 . priests, have theirold bodies resurrected, and now in a fairly well-preserved condition lie in state in a beautifulpalace for this and future generations to look hieroglyphics on vegetable parchment, whichare found in these tombs are wonderfully well pre-served, and are of such a character that Egyptianscholars have partially deciphered them. The monuments are numerous, ancient andvery interesting. Strange it seems, that the winds,the Nile and the sands, in time would cover up thetemples for thousands of years, and that the peo-ple in this age would again bring them forth andshow them to the world as evidence of the skilland power of the prehistoric age. There are many places and things of note tosee, that are merely handed down by traditionand are now accepted only as myths by thelearned; but there in old Egypts museum is theevidence of much unrecorded history many timesconfirmed. The 25th of March had come and with it hotweather; and as we had already tarried longer in 258. Egypt than we expected, we bid farewell to thegreat city of Cairo and started down the Nile overa part of the fertile delta and through the Landof Goshen, on our way to old Palestine. Wecrossed over near the Red sea and notfar from where Moses led ,the Children ofIsrael out of bondage into this, their promisedland. Our train skirted along the great Suezcanal for about twenty miles and we saw largesteamships and other craft slowly moving alongon this narrow way for ports in India, and othereastern cties, or perhaps going westward, ladenwith products of the orient to find a market in thewestern part of the world. A ship from Bombayfor London can shorten her route
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