. Egypt painted and described . The Lower Nile good-natured folk, whose philosophy and industryserve to some extent to overcome the natural povertyof their condition. At last a sudden bend in the river brought us intofull and immediate view of Damietta : a glorious stretchof piled-up buildings, domes, and minarets, broken bythe masts and spars of innumerable feluccas and giassaswith their high lateen sails, coasting-vessels from Alex-andria and Port Said, Greek wine-boats, schooners andbrigs from Italy and the Levant, all serving to producean impression of prosperity and trade. Alas, poor Dami
. Egypt painted and described . The Lower Nile good-natured folk, whose philosophy and industryserve to some extent to overcome the natural povertyof their condition. At last a sudden bend in the river brought us intofull and immediate view of Damietta : a glorious stretchof piled-up buildings, domes, and minarets, broken bythe masts and spars of innumerable feluccas and giassaswith their high lateen sails, coasting-vessels from Alex-andria and Port Said, Greek wine-boats, schooners andbrigs from Italy and the Levant, all serving to producean impression of prosperity and trade. Alas, poor Damietta ! the Venice of Egypt! its tradeis but a shadow of what it had been, and, like its proto-type, little is left of its earlier prosperity but the fast-decaying palaces and mosques, and other evidences ofa once important and flourishing position in the worldof trade. The visitor to Damietta is at once impressed withthe fact that here is something quite different fromanything he has seen elsewhere in Egypt. Its mainfeatures di
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