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HOW TO ASCEND THE NILE.
Nile voyage. They afford many improvements not be-
fore enjoyed on the Nile.
For those who cannot spare the time for such a trip,
and are more gregarious in their tastes, there are eight
or ten steamers which make trips from Cairo to Assouan
and return, in twenty days. These will carry from forty
to sixty passengers. Between November and March
fourteen such trips are made at an expense of from $250
to $325 for each passenger. A steamer also plies between
the first and second cataract for those who wish to prolong
the voyage. Each steamer is provided with a piano, a
library of such books as one desires on the Nile, and a
physician and surgeon. State-rooms for one person, and
occasionally for two persons, are fitted with electric bells
and bath-rooms. All these steamers and dahabeahs are
now owned and managed by Messrs. Thomas Cook ifc
Son.
This enterprising firm has also established at Luxor
two hotels which accommodate one hundred and eighty
guests. To these are attached gardens of four or live
acres for the production of fresh vegetables and for rais-
ing bullocks, sheep, and poultry. Special provisions are
made for invalids and consumptives; persons afflicted
with nervous weakness will find this climate wonderfully
beneficial.
Mails are received twice a week, and telegraphic com-
munication may bo had with any part of the globe.
Messrs. Cook & Son also sell tickets from New York
and Boston for Egypt and return, and hotel coupons good
in any city in the world. Of all this, information may
be best obtained at any one of their offices. There is no
country in the world whero a winter can be spent with
so few discomforts, and surrounded by so many charms,
as in Egypt.
HOW TO ASCEND THE NILE.
Nile voyage. They afford many improvements not be-
fore enjoyed on the Nile.
For those who cannot spare the time for such a trip,
and are more gregarious in their tastes, there are eight
or ten steamers which make trips from Cairo to Assouan
and return, in twenty days. These will carry from forty
to sixty passengers. Between November and March
fourteen such trips are made at an expense of from $250
to $325 for each passenger. A steamer also plies between
the first and second cataract for those who wish to prolong
the voyage. Each steamer is provided with a piano, a
library of such books as one desires on the Nile, and a
physician and surgeon. State-rooms for one person, and
occasionally for two persons, are fitted with electric bells
and bath-rooms. All these steamers and dahabeahs are
now owned and managed by Messrs. Thomas Cook ifc
Son.
This enterprising firm has also established at Luxor
two hotels which accommodate one hundred and eighty
guests. To these are attached gardens of four or live
acres for the production of fresh vegetables and for rais-
ing bullocks, sheep, and poultry. Special provisions are
made for invalids and consumptives; persons afflicted
with nervous weakness will find this climate wonderfully
beneficial.
Mails are received twice a week, and telegraphic com-
munication may bo had with any part of the globe.
Messrs. Cook & Son also sell tickets from New York
and Boston for Egypt and return, and hotel coupons good
in any city in the world. Of all this, information may
be best obtained at any one of their offices. There is no
country in the world whero a winter can be spent with
so few discomforts, and surrounded by so many charms,
as in Egypt.