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IS 274.2
Story of an Emigrant.
for this day: "Under thick canvass there is a strangely
mixed crowd of people 011 the half-deck, gathered for divine
worship, and when they closed the same by singing:
lO, hear us as we cry to Thee
For those in j>eril on the sea,’
the voiecs of Mohammedans, Jews, Buddhists and Brahmins
from a dozen different countries were blended with those of
the Christians."
We spent the 22d of May in the city of Aden, in South
Arabia. This place is hot and dreary. Accompanied by one
of my fellow-passengers I took a ride 011 camel-back through
the desert to the celebrated water reservoirs. It seldom
rains more than once in every three years at this place. To
preserve the water that falls on these occasions the
Arabians have built a series of cisterns, or large reservoirs, for the
water along the foot of a mountain. These cistcrns are
made with great architectural skill; they are built of stbne
and cement, and are much more compact and durable than
similar works of modern times. Water is a great luxury in
Southern Arabia, and it is customary to offer the driver a
drink of water for his catnel or horse as an
encouragement to drive a little faster or to show him a favor. At the
same time the driver does not object to a tip, which in
oriental countries is called, as in Epypt, "backshish," an
expression with which every traveler soon becomes familiar.
From Aden we had a pleasant voyage up the Red sea to
Suez. The cholera was, so to speak, in the air, and our
steamer was the last one which escaped quarantine. From
Suez I traveled in company with some other passengers by
rail to Cairo. We stopped an hour at the little city Ismailia,
which is situated on the canal, and is a fine place, noted
especially for the great fete given by Count F. de Lcsscps at
the opening of the Suez canal, for which occasion a fine
palace was built for the accommodation of Empress Eugenie of
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