. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. his cabinet, dismissed the officers and appointed new at once protested. The Khedive was compelledto dismiss the ministry he had selected and appoint suchofficers as England dictated. The movement on the part. WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 327 of the ruler seemed to indicate too much independenceand England sent a number of troops to reinforce her armyof occupation on the banks of the Nile. Surely there is noprince in all the land of Egypt to-day. On our way down th
. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. his cabinet, dismissed the officers and appointed new at once protested. The Khedive was compelledto dismiss the ministry he had selected and appoint suchofficers as England dictated. The movement on the part. WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 327 of the ruler seemed to indicate too much independenceand England sent a number of troops to reinforce her armyof occupation on the banks of the Nile. Surely there is noprince in all the land of Egypt to-day. On our way down the river we stopped at Keneh,where are located a number of potteries. There many ofthe water bottles and jars used in Egypt are made. Wewere much interested in a visit to the potters at work attheir wheels. In the Bible there are many allusions to thepotter and his work, and it is singular to find the descrip-tion given in the Book fully confirmed by the actual prac-tice there to-day. And this is not only true of the pottersin Egypt, but also of those in Palestine. There was the pot-ter sitting by his wheel, turning it with his foot, a descrip-tion of which we may find in the Apocrypha: So doth thepotter, sitting at his work and turning the wheel about withhis feet: he fashioneth the clay with his arm. So the pot-ters there turned th
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