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Story of an Emigrant.
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One of these extends over the water, so that when one sits
there drinking genuine Mocha coffee and smoking a Turkish
uargileh one can hear the beating of the waves and feeli-he
pillar of pompeii.
undulations of the azure Mediterranean. I drove out
into the country a few miles to see the Egyptian fellahs, or
peasants. No—I shall not disgrace the name "peasant" by
using it here; for the Egyptian fellah is an ignorant,
superstitious, absolute^ destitute, and, in every respect,
miserable wretch, and is worse off than a slave. Two walls
of stones or earth make one or two rooms, with a floor of
clay and a roof of straw or sod. A wooden box, a couple of
kettles, and some mats made of grass or palm canes, are the
only pieces of furniture. A couple of goats, an ass, or, at
the very best, a yoke of oxen, are all he possesses in this
world. He works hard, and his fare is exceedingly plain.
He neither desires nor expects anything better, nothing
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