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Title: Through Bible lands : notes of travel in Egypt, the desert, and Palestine
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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Publisher: New York : American Tract Society
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ly palm-tree; flocks ofwild ducks, white ibises, pelicans, and storks; trains ofcamels, loaded with sacks of grain and chicken-coops;officers prancing along on horses or donkeys; fellaheenploughing with buffaloes or pumping water from the Nileand the canals ; mud villages, mosques, and minarets ;crowds of half-naked men, women, and children at everystation ; and in the far distance the yellow hills of thedesert and the lofty pyramids, at the sight of which athrill goes through the soul. In the afternoon we reachthe station at Cairo ; and, after escaping the confusion ofmen, donkeys, camels, and cabs, we are comfortablylodged in Shepheards Hotel, one of the best in the East,kept by a German, in the new part of the city. The climate is delightful. We are suddenly trans-planted from winter to spring, from clouds and rain toperpetual sunshine. During our whole sojourn in Egyptwe saw rain but once, and that hardly sufficient for thesprinkling of a lotus. Egypt is truly the land of the sun.
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CAIRO. 31 CHAPTER IV. CAIRO, The Capital of Egypt—The Cosmopolis of the East—The Street Life—The Bazaars—The Citadel—TheMosques—The Old University El-Azhar—The NewUniversity of the Khedive—The Library—The Mu-seum of Boulak—Old Cairo—Roda—The Palaces. Cairo (Masr el-Kahira, the Victorious), the capital ofEgypt and of the Arab world, is also a capital of Moham-medanism and the East, second in importance only toConstantinople. It is the counterpart of Paris, London,and New York, the cosmopolitan cities of Christendomand the West. It has a thoroughly Oriental character,though not so exclusively as Damascus, but, like Con-stantinople, with a considerable infusion of European lifeand civilization which are fast making inroads upon theconservative East. The great mass of the 400,000 in-habitants are Egyptian Arabs, and followers of Islam.The rest are Copts (or Egyptian Christians); Turks(who are, of course, all Moslems); Bedawin (or Arabs ofthe desert); Jews, Italians

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