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Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land
Incidents of Travel in Egypt Arabia Petra and the Holy Land Author:John Lloyd Stephens General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1848 Original Publisher: Harper Subjects: Middle East Egypt Arabian Peninsula Palestine Sinai (Egypt) History / Ancient / Egypt History / Middle East / Egypt History / Middle East / Israel History / Middle East / General Travel / Middle East / General ... more » Travel / Middle East / Egypt Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. ioumey up the Nile. -- An Arab Burial. -- Pilgrims to Mecca. -- Trials ol Patience. -- A Hurricane on the Nile. -- A Turkish Bath. On the first of January I commenced my journey up the Nile. My boat was small, for greater convenience in rowing and towing. She was, however, about forty feet long, with two fine latteen sails, and manned by eight men, a rais or captain, and a governor or pilot. This was to be my home from Cairo to the Cataracts, or as long as I remained on the riVer. There was not a place where a traveller could sleep, and I could not expect to eat a meal or pass a night except on board ; consequently, I was obliged to provide myself at Cairo with all things necessary for the whole voyage. My outfit was not very extravagant. It consisted, as near as I can recollect, of two tin cups, two pairs of knives and forks, four plates, coffee, tea, sugar, rice, mac- caroni, and a few dozen of claret. My bedroom-furniture consisted of a mattress and coverlet, which in the daytime were tucked up so as to make a divan. Over the head of my bed were my gun and pistols, and at the foot was a little swinging shelf, containing my Library, which consisted of the Modern Traveller on Egypt, Volney's Travels, and an Italian grammar and dictionary. My only companion was my servant; and as he is about to be somewhat i...« less