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CHAPTER XV.
Alexandria and its Monuments—Tlie Egyptian "Fellahs"—Tlic
Mohammedans and Their Religion—Tlie Voyage Through the Suez Canal—The
Red Sea—The Indian Ocean—The Arrival at Calcutta.
I was now in Africa and Egypt, among the remnants of
ancient glory of which I had read so much, and which I so
often had longed to see, in the wonder-land of Egypt, with
which every Christian child is made acquainted through the
first lessons in Bible history, the country to which Joseph
was carried as a slave, and whose actual ruler he finally
became by dint of his wisdom and virtue. I was in the Nile
valley where Pharoah built his magazines and stored up
grain for the seven years of famine, and whence Moses
conducted the children of Israel by means of 44 a pillar of a
cloud and a pillar of fire." In the land of the pyramids
everything seemed strange and wonderful, and different
from anything I had seen before. The streets crowded with
people, the bazaars, the oriental costumes, the Babylonian
confusion of all the tongues of the earth,—all this combined
made on me an overwhelming impression. Cleopatra’s
needle; Pompey’s pillar; the caravans of camels on their
way into the desert; the old graves and catacombs; the
palm groves, the oxen turning the old-fashioned
water-wheels which carrv the water from the Nile for irrigating
the fields, just as in the days of Moses,—all this was
reproduced in actual, living pictures before mv wondering eves.
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