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INCIDENTS OY TRAVEL.
lips of strangers ; and when the paper was given
me, with congratulations and compliments on the
successful and honourable issue of the affair with
France, my feelings grew prouder and prouder as I
read, until, when I had finished the last line, I threw
up my cap in the old city of Cairo, and shouted the
old gathering-cry, "Hurrah for Jackson !"
I have heard all manners of opinion expressed
in regard to a voyage on the Nile ; and may be
allowed, perhaps, to give my own. Mrs. S. used
frequently to say that, although she had travelled
in France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and Si-
cily, she had never enjoyed a journey so much be-
fore, and was alwavs afraid that it would end too
soon. Another lady's sentiments, expressed in my
hearing, were just the contrary. For myself, being
alone, and not in very good health, I had some
heavy moments ; but I have no hesitation in say-
ing that, with a friend, a good boat, well fitted up,
books, guns, plenty of time, and a cook like Mi-
chel, a voyage on the Nile would exceed any
travelling within my experience. The perfect
freedom from all restraint, and from the conven-
tional trammels of civilized society, forms an epi-
sode in a man's life that is vastly agreeable and ex-
citing. Think of not shaving for two months, of
washing your shirts in the Nile, and wearing them
without being ironed. True, these things are not
absolutely necessary; but who would go to Egypt
to travel as he does in Europe ? " Away with all
fantasies and fetters," is the motto of the tourist.
We throw aside pretty much every thing except
INCIDENTS OY TRAVEL.
lips of strangers ; and when the paper was given
me, with congratulations and compliments on the
successful and honourable issue of the affair with
France, my feelings grew prouder and prouder as I
read, until, when I had finished the last line, I threw
up my cap in the old city of Cairo, and shouted the
old gathering-cry, "Hurrah for Jackson !"
I have heard all manners of opinion expressed
in regard to a voyage on the Nile ; and may be
allowed, perhaps, to give my own. Mrs. S. used
frequently to say that, although she had travelled
in France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and Si-
cily, she had never enjoyed a journey so much be-
fore, and was alwavs afraid that it would end too
soon. Another lady's sentiments, expressed in my
hearing, were just the contrary. For myself, being
alone, and not in very good health, I had some
heavy moments ; but I have no hesitation in say-
ing that, with a friend, a good boat, well fitted up,
books, guns, plenty of time, and a cook like Mi-
chel, a voyage on the Nile would exceed any
travelling within my experience. The perfect
freedom from all restraint, and from the conven-
tional trammels of civilized society, forms an epi-
sode in a man's life that is vastly agreeable and ex-
citing. Think of not shaving for two months, of
washing your shirts in the Nile, and wearing them
without being ironed. True, these things are not
absolutely necessary; but who would go to Egypt
to travel as he does in Europe ? " Away with all
fantasies and fetters," is the motto of the tourist.
We throw aside pretty much every thing except