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Title: Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland ..
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Packard, J. F
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Voyages around the world
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo., W. S. Bryan (etc., etc.)
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EGYPTIAN RUINS. disposal by the Pacha who rules the district, but he rodethe animal with a protest, as it had a shambling gait, andwished that courtesy to his host did not prevent his takinga donkey. The Marquis had some difficulty in pleasinghimself, and when at last he set out with an umbrella un-der his arm and his eyes shaded with sombre spectacles,the suggestion was made that he was a Methodist col-porteur on a journey of preaching. But there was agleam of satisfaction in his noble face, as he informed usthat a couple of camels had gone up from the town laden
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AROUND THE WORLD. 261 with refreshments, and that we should have breakfast inthe temple. As I have hinted in this correspondence, theMarquis has no enthusiasm for ruins, especially Egyptianruins, while he has positive and valuable views aboutbreakfast. So in time we were off over the country forAbydos. The fields were cracked, and tlie ditches, whichin good times would carry irrigating streams, were dry.Each of us had two Arabs for an escort, and the duty ofthese attendants seemed to be to encourage his beast by asound something between a whisper and a hiss, or shout-ing or beating him. I rather think the beating did notamount to much, for these people love their animals andlive with them and make them companions and friends.But the lady of our expedition would not endure thestick, and we were halted, and Hassan was summoned andtold to say to the attendants that they must not beat thedonkeys or they would have no baksheesh, not a farthing.There could be no more fearful punishment than

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