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PYRAMIDS AND ì'/ÌOGkl-SS.
TAME LION' OF THE PHARAC
{Temple of Ko«! Ornbo.]
at Cairo and branches at the large
towns these natives have been
licked into shape. Their engineers
are British ; every ship carries a
British doctor. Messrs. Cook trans-
act your postal arrangements, for-
warding your letters free of charge,
and are the bankers of every nation-
ality in the world, with clerks of
polyglot education. Yet with all
these facilities the time will come,
if a man visits Egypt many times,
when he will seek to find some
places where even Cook is unknown. In this frame of mind I felt that I would
try to sail upon the Nile alone, master of my own ship, stopping when and
where I chose, avoiding timebills and tours mapped out beforehand, and
personally conducted only by myself. Accordingly I made arrangements for
hiring a felucca, and for dropping down the river from Assouan northwards.
I had often visited my friend Professor Sayce in his floating home on the
Nile. He spends every winter and spring upon the river, going where he will, and
anchoring where seems unto him good. I think his wandering life, his accounts of
visits to places where tourist steamers never stop, filled me with the notion of
copying his mode of travel in a very miniature form. Mr. Sayce possesses the
best and most comfortable dahabeah on the Nile. All that I promised myself,
however, was at best but a feeble imitation of the Istar, the great ship (with a yard
132 feet in length) owned by my friend. Mr. George H. Morgan, one of the
Government engineers at Assouan, found me a felucca about 30 feet long and half
decked. It had one big sail, was the swiftest sailer on the river, and had been
used with satisfaction by his department. On this we got built a canvas house
to shelter from the sun and to act as a cabin. My friend also selected the
crew and helped kindly with my outfit. I had a smart young captain, four
sailors, and my own stalwart Nubian servant. There was also a small boy,
who was needed to climb the bending mast like a monkey, and make himself
generally useless ! I paid several visits to the bazaar at Assouan and laid
in supplies.
I had made the acquaintance of a delightful native gentleman, Mustafa
Shakir, the Mamour, or Chief Magistrate, of Assouan, and he undertook to
inform all the heads of police stations along my route of my intended journey
and to afford me protection in case of need. The Egyptian police are a fine body
TAME LION' OF THE PHARAC
{Temple of Ko«! Ornbo.]
at Cairo and branches at the large
towns these natives have been
licked into shape. Their engineers
are British ; every ship carries a
British doctor. Messrs. Cook trans-
act your postal arrangements, for-
warding your letters free of charge,
and are the bankers of every nation-
ality in the world, with clerks of
polyglot education. Yet with all
these facilities the time will come,
if a man visits Egypt many times,
when he will seek to find some
places where even Cook is unknown. In this frame of mind I felt that I would
try to sail upon the Nile alone, master of my own ship, stopping when and
where I chose, avoiding timebills and tours mapped out beforehand, and
personally conducted only by myself. Accordingly I made arrangements for
hiring a felucca, and for dropping down the river from Assouan northwards.
I had often visited my friend Professor Sayce in his floating home on the
Nile. He spends every winter and spring upon the river, going where he will, and
anchoring where seems unto him good. I think his wandering life, his accounts of
visits to places where tourist steamers never stop, filled me with the notion of
copying his mode of travel in a very miniature form. Mr. Sayce possesses the
best and most comfortable dahabeah on the Nile. All that I promised myself,
however, was at best but a feeble imitation of the Istar, the great ship (with a yard
132 feet in length) owned by my friend. Mr. George H. Morgan, one of the
Government engineers at Assouan, found me a felucca about 30 feet long and half
decked. It had one big sail, was the swiftest sailer on the river, and had been
used with satisfaction by his department. On this we got built a canvas house
to shelter from the sun and to act as a cabin. My friend also selected the
crew and helped kindly with my outfit. I had a smart young captain, four
sailors, and my own stalwart Nubian servant. There was also a small boy,
who was needed to climb the bending mast like a monkey, and make himself
generally useless ! I paid several visits to the bazaar at Assouan and laid
in supplies.
I had made the acquaintance of a delightful native gentleman, Mustafa
Shakir, the Mamour, or Chief Magistrate, of Assouan, and he undertook to
inform all the heads of police stations along my route of my intended journey
and to afford me protection in case of need. The Egyptian police are a fine body