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CHAPTER II
Is.MAII.IA
Ismailia—The Monuments from Tell-el-Maskhutah—The discovery
of Pithom—The Treasure Cities of Pharaoh—Bricks made bythe
Israelites—The Pharaohs of the Oppression, and of the Exodus
—The railroad to Cairo—The Desert—TeU-el-Khebir—The
Land of Goshen—Oriental customs and Bible illustrations—
Bubastis—Tell-el-Yahoudeh, site of tlie Jewish Temple in
Egypt—Approach to Cairo.
THE light of a glorious sunrise aroused me on
the morning after our lauding at Ismailia, and
on gomy to the window a very interesting sight met
my view. Before me lay Lake Timsah, a sheet of
intensely blue water, sparkling in the light ; the
yellow sand-hills around being gilded by the sun-
beams, it looked like a turquoise set in gold. Near
the shore Arab fishermen were in their boats ; one
was wading through the clear water, and another was
on the shore carefully mending his nets. The scene
was so novel in even- way that it carried my thoughts
far away to the shore of another Eastern lake, where
fishermen, closely resembling those I saw before me,
were once thus engaged.* I watched the group with
interest, and finally saw them "go a-fishing." Two or
three Arabs with a train of camels were crossing the
• Matt. iv. is 22.
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Is.MAII.IA
Ismailia—The Monuments from Tell-el-Maskhutah—The discovery
of Pithom—The Treasure Cities of Pharaoh—Bricks made bythe
Israelites—The Pharaohs of the Oppression, and of the Exodus
—The railroad to Cairo—The Desert—TeU-el-Khebir—The
Land of Goshen—Oriental customs and Bible illustrations—
Bubastis—Tell-el-Yahoudeh, site of tlie Jewish Temple in
Egypt—Approach to Cairo.
THE light of a glorious sunrise aroused me on
the morning after our lauding at Ismailia, and
on gomy to the window a very interesting sight met
my view. Before me lay Lake Timsah, a sheet of
intensely blue water, sparkling in the light ; the
yellow sand-hills around being gilded by the sun-
beams, it looked like a turquoise set in gold. Near
the shore Arab fishermen were in their boats ; one
was wading through the clear water, and another was
on the shore carefully mending his nets. The scene
was so novel in even- way that it carried my thoughts
far away to the shore of another Eastern lake, where
fishermen, closely resembling those I saw before me,
were once thus engaged.* I watched the group with
interest, and finally saw them "go a-fishing." Two or
three Arabs with a train of camels were crossing the
• Matt. iv. is 22.
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