Identifier: ourjourneyaround00clar (find matches)
Title: Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand miles..
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Clark, Francis E. (Francis Edward), 1851-1927 Clark, Harriet E. (Harriet Elizabeth), b. 1850
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., A. D. Worthington
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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rymen, slew the Egyptian, and became an exile from
the court where he might have reigned as a prince, choos-
ing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to
enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Our hearts throb
within us as we look out on these historic sights, and realize
that these were the same sandy plains, the same green fields,
watered then as now, with the tears of the Nile, while the
same cloudless Egyptian sky bent over them as over us.
Out here rode in majestic state the famous Prime Minister
of the Pharaohs, the young man who, by his own virtue and
force of character, raised himself from the position of a
captive peasant to a prince of the realm. These roads, too,
were trodden by the feet of Aaron, the High Priest, by
Miriam, the tuneful singer; and along these same highways
rumbled the chariot wheels of the great Pharaohs, who, as
world-conquering rulers, have never been equaled by Greek
or Roman, Turk or Briton.
We see very little, however, to remind us of the magnifi-
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NATIVE EGYPTIAN SCHOOL (from an instantaneous photograph)
An Egyptian school is a curiosity. The pupils sit on the floor, study their lessons aloud, rocking back and forth, and they make the schoolroom
about as noisy as a ward politicial meeting. I generally knew where a schoolroom was at least half a minute before I reached its doors. The master
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THE EGYPTIANS OF TO-DAY. 383

cence of the Pharaohs, or of the state in which Joseph trav-
eled in those early days. Most of the villages which we
pass are mean collections of wretched mud houses. Their
four walls rise scarcely higher than the head of a man, and
except for an occasional mosque, with its slender minaret,
there is no attempt at architectural beauty or embellishment
of any kind. Most of the lower classes who swarm at the
railway stations, and whom we see from the car windows,
wear around their necks charms, written on paper, and sewn
up in leather. They are ignorant and superstitious to the
last degree, and not only protect themselves, but their cattle
in the same way. Every man, as he passes a saint's' tomb, it
is said, mumbles a prayer without stopping, and, saint's
tombs being very numerous, a mumbled prayer is always on
his lips. Some of the great saints are appealed to on every
possible occasion. If a man sneezes, or is afflicted with the
hiccoughs, or turns his ankle in the streets, he adjures his
favorite saint.


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