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Title: Letters of travel : journey in the Bermudas, England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France, 1894 : in Mexico, 1896, in Canada, 1898 : in Egypt, Holy Land, Turkey, Greece, Italy and France, 1900 : in Morocco, Spain, Algiers, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Holland, Belgium and London, 1903
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Sherrick, Johnson
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: (Canton, Ohio : J. Sherrick)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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andwhere the old east and the new and enterprisingwest meet and mingle. These, Gods chosen peo-ple, as it were, have not kept pace with the westin the race of progress. In spite of the Europeanenvironments, and notwithstanding the great lightof civilization shines brighter and brighter everyday, carrying refinement and luxury further over theearth, they seem to be less able to cope with theworld, or do as well for themselves as they did fivethousand years ago. May be that the once shiningstar of old Egypt will again rise from behind the 237 clouds and with her eight million people livingon the richest soil in that most fertile valley oftheir great river, and take her place amongthe best nations on earth. They have not theability to plan and project large things, but havethe energy to strive for small affairs. They arecivil but boisterous and not combative. Todaywe start up the Nile. I shall say more abo itCairo and its surroundings in my next letter. Cairo, Egypt, March 3rd, 1900. 288
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LETTER XXXI. IN EGYPT. BAZAARS IN CAIRO.—PYRAMIDS.—-ARABIC SCHOOL.—WHERE MOSES WAS FOUND.—OLD CAIRO.—THENILE.—CURIOUS SCENES, ON AND ALONGTHE RIVER. BEFORE leaving Cairo we visited so manyplaces that were queer and strange that Iwill undertake to mention but a few of themost important. The bazaars in the nativequarters are extremely curious. There they man-ufacture their wares and store, sell and display^them. Main street, barely wide enough for twocarriages to pass, leads into and through the strangeand busy part of the great city. It is so thronged during the day that onecan scarcely push his way along. There are onlynarrow sidewalks and the whole street is filledwith people on foot, on donkeys, in carriages,and on camels. The houses are low, project outat the top, built of stone and are ages old. Fromthis main street lead many little straight and wind-ing avenues, four to six feet wide, through whichonly people on foot and donkeys go. On each sideof these passages are t

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