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 fromthe court where he might have reigned as a prince, choos-ing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than toenjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Our hearts throbwithin us as we look out on these historic sights, and realizethat these were the same sandy plains, the same green fields,watered then as now, with the tears of the Nile, while thesame cloudless Egyptian sky bent over them as over us.Out here rode in majestic state the famous Prime Ministerof the Pharaohs, the young man who, by his own virtue andforce of character, raised himself from the position of acaptive peasant to a prince of the realm. These roads, too,were trodden by the feet of Aaron, the High Priest, byMiriam, the tuneful singer; and along these same highwaysrumbled the chariot wheels of the great Pharaohs, who, asworld-conquering rulers, have never been equaled by Greekor Roman, Turk or Briton. We see very little, however, to remind us of the magnifi-
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fe **! 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 wepass are mean collections of wretched mud houses. Theirfour walls rise scarcely higher than the head of a man, andexcept for an occasional mosque, with its slender minaret,there is no attempt at architectural beauty or embellishmentof any kind. Most of the lower classes who swarm at therailway stations, and whom we see from the car windows,wear around their necks charms, written on paper, and sewnup in leather. They are ignorant and superstitious to thelast degree, and not only protect themselves, but their cattlein the same way. Every man, as he passes a saints tomb, itis said, mumbles a prayer without stopping, and, saintstombs being very numerous, a mumbled prayer is always onhis lips. Some of the great saints are appealed to on everypossible occasion. If a man sneezes, or is afflicted with thehiccoughs, or turns his ankle in the str

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