Identifier: aroundworldwithp00phil (find matches)
Title: Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil ..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Phillips, Philip, 1834-1895 Vincent, John Heyl, 1832-1920
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: New York, The Phillips Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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l city, came crowding into my mind, andI stood absorbed in deepest meditation. We arrived at Ramleh just in the evening, andfound the convent full of tourists. Resuming our journey at day-break, we reached Jop;)a in time to take passage for Egypt.A pleasant sail and we were at Alexandria on the 22d of March; and after going throughthe ordeal of the customs, and being besieged by boatmen, we reached the Hotel Europe,situated on a large and pleasant square, and found the city, contrary to our expectations, tobe very fine and s))acious. The next morning we took the cars for Cairo, arriving in the afternoon, and taking upour quarters at the Hotel dOrento. The route thither was through a beautiful green valleyalong the banks of the Nile; but the mud-huts of the natives resembled those of Syria, andthe children who surrounded us at the stations were filthily clad, sore-eyed, and covered withflies, of which thev did not make the least effort to rid themselves. /)A\!.U//>.S A.\/> XIJ.K.
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STREET bl.l£.NE Visiting the bazars and walking the streets, we found the Egyptians to be a very common-looking, in fact homely, people, as far as the males are concerned. The faces of the womenbeing concealed, excepting their eyes, we were not able to decide upon their beauty. Nearlyevery male, great and small, rich or poor, is clad in Turkish trousers and vest, and wearsupon his head the red fez or felt cap, to which depends a black tassel; and if he is notafflicted with ophthalmia, or sore eyes, the fact is an exception to the general rule. In thestreets we observed that the mothers carried their infants astride the left shoulder. Donkeysare for hire on every corner, and have been called the omnibus of EgyiJt. The boy at-tendant runs beside the animal, and assists you to embark or disembark with great convenience. We visited among jwints of interest the mosque of alabaster marble, in which repose theremains of Mahomet Ali. We were driven seven miles thither, through a lovely green

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