This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... manners. It is only here, and just where the English go. When I ride into the little villages, I never hear the word, but am always offered milk to drink; I have taken it two or three times and not offered to pay, and the people always seemed quite pleased. Yesterday Sheykh Yoosuf came again, the first time ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... manners. It is only here, and just where the English go. When I ride into the little villages, I never hear the word, but am always offered milk to drink; I have taken it two or three times and not offered to pay, and the people always seemed quite pleased. Yesterday Sheykh Yoosuf came again, the first time since his brother's death; he was evidently deeply affected, but spoke in the usual way, "It is the will of God, we must all die." I wish you could see Sheykh Yoosuf; I think he is the sweetest creature in look and manner I ever beheld, --so refined and so simple, and with the animal grace of a gazelle. A highbred Arab is as graceful as an Indian, but quite without the feline Geschmeidigkeit, or the look of dissimulation; the eye is as clear and frank as a child's. The Austrian consular agent here, who knows Egypt and Arabia well, tells me that he thinks many of them quite as good as they look, and said of Sheykh Yoosuf, "JEr ist so gemuthlich!" There is a German here deciphering hieroglyphics, Herr Dummichen, a very agreeable man, but he has gone across the river to live at El-Kurneh. He has been through Ethiopia in search of temples and inscriptions. I am to go over and visit him, and see some of the tombs again in his company, which I shall enjoy, as a good interpreter is sorely wanted in those mysterious regions. I have just heard that a good donkey is en route in a boat from El Mootaneh; he will cost between four and five pounds, and will enable me to be about far more than I could by merely borrowing Mustafa's horse, about which I have scruples, as he lends it to other lady-travellers. Little Ahmad will be my Sais as well as my doorkeeper, I suppose. Mustafa Agha has acted as English consular agent here for something like thirty years, ...
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