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A Camel Trip to Petrified Forest Vicissitudes of
Sahara TravelingThe Sphinx as the Father
of Terror More Ancient than Chronology.
Caiko, Egypt, Feb. 20, 1903.
Thebes, where arts your hundred
Kates, horscnieu and cars mentioned by
the poet? What caused you to lose
your grasp upon a thousand states,
which Homer suggests were once yours?
Let the poet of the Greeks speak:
"Not till proud Thebes unrivaled walls
contain v
Tho world's nrat umpro.11 on tlio Kgyptlnn
plain
That prcads liar conquests o'er 11 thousand
states,
Andiwurn Jut heroes through 11 hundred Knto$,
Two hundred horsemen, mid two hundred
enw,
From each wldoixirtnl IssulnK lotho-warp."
Tho grandeur and splendor once
evinced by proud, unrivaled Thebes,
so entrancing to Homer that it indcl
libly frescoed itself upon his mind, has
flown and in its departure has left
wreck, ruin, decay and almost total an.
nihilation as vestiges of its former
greatness.
"Tho I.ord'of Hosts, the God of Israel,
saith 'Behold, I will punish the multi
tude of No ,(Thebes) and thoir klngs."--Jercmiah,
4O: 25.
No (Thebes) shall be rent asunder."
Ezckicl 30: 16.
History follows as tho narrator of
prophecy fulfilled.
I shall leave Egypt, laden with an
argosy of memories that shall afford
food for thought until life's highest goal
is reached, and I shall not consider tho
trouble and labor experienced if I am
assured that I have taken a'single step
toward unlocking Egypt to any searcher!
for truth unacquainted with this his
toric laud.
Cakio, Egypt, Feb. 21, 1903.
After scaling the great pyramid and
finishing the trip through its interior,
my Ohio friend and I secured camels
at a charge of six shillings each for a
long trip out in the Sahara desctt to
tho petrified forest bo called, but I
would call it a petrified tree instead.
Why dignify one tree or at most a half
dozen trees with the name "forest?"' I
did not care so much for the petrifica
tion so apparent away out in tho desei t
as for the trip itself. I had often
wondered how it would be to ride a
long legged, crooked necked camel
over tho scorching Sahara sands as a
Bedouin, and iftl ever had cfrbugh of
any one thing in my life it was that
riding. If I had consulted my own
feelings I would have preferred to walk
and carry tho camel and probably would
if I had been strong enough, but siucc I
was out for experience I decided to ride
the entire journey or die in the attempt,
even if every bone in my anatomy
ached under the influence of ten thous
and movements in seventeen directions
at one and the same time. The dargo
man, who went along to show us the
whereabouts of this so-called primeval
forest, rode a donkey. My friend and
1, who were surprised to meet each
other out on a desert wild, were per
mitted to ride the donkey occasionally
over a hort stretcli of the journey al
ternately while our bones were in the
formal act of seeking their former ren
dezvous and resetting themselves'.
My cornel was named Kameses
and if he was not in the ark, I rest as
sured that his ancestors were, his age
being very much in evidence though he
could rise from tho turtle posture .al
most as quickly as the up-spring of a
rabbit, thereby requiring a person to
be very active or tho lantern-jawed des
ert traveler would be off without his
pasengcr. Of course we were wise
enough to take our luuch along as
those desert wastes produce nothing, in
short it would be difficult out there to
develop sufficient energy to raise a
respectable disturbance.
A visit to old Cairo is not without
interest, but old Cairo is a reproduction
of the old cities of India. He who
would see only the native quarters of
old Indian cities might ' s,top off here
and save a few thousand miles of
his journey."
Cairo's mosques are built on a small
scale compared with those of India.
Those of India are more beautiful,
more, costly and much larger, the finest
one here being at the Citadel, built
bv Mohammund Ah. in 1829 and
patterned after those nt Constantinople,
so I am told. The mosques of Cairo
are the leadint sights of the city. The
Coptic church in old Cairo is interest
ing because it is the traditional site
where the Virgin took refuge, for a
while at least, when the innocent child
ren were being massacred at Bethle
hem. The crypt of the church, con
taining the identical spot, is 2,900
years eld, the spot occupied by the
sacred ones being marked with a cross.
Th' citadel is much sought by visitors
because of its liigh commanding posi
tion affording a splendid view' of tho
city and also because 450 Mcmlooks,
were slain here; only one, Emin Bey,
escaped by leaping his hoi so from the
towering battlement, crushing his
horse but saving himself.'
Among the objects of interest in and
about Cairo which I shall not take the
Bjiaco to describe arc: The Ezbckich
gardens in the center of Cairo. The
bazaarB on Mousky street. The uni
versity. Hundreds of mosques. The
tombs of the Khalifa and Mcmlookcs.
The great aqueduct in old Cairo.
Khoda island, reached hi' train, where
tlic Nilomclcr is located, and Moses'
tree, where Moses is supposed to have
btcn found in the rushes along the
Nile. The ttmseum, where arc ex
hibited the mummies, sarcophagis,
gods, and relics of ancient Egyptians.
It is opened daily except Mondays, an
admission fco' of 5 piasters being
charged at present. It contains prob
ably the finest collection of Egyptian
faitiquitic3 extant, the building itself
having cost S 1, 000,000 according to
otic authority, and 85,000,000 accord
ing to another. Tho ostrich farm near
Hchopolis contains about 800 birds,
and is a favorite mccca for the ladies.
Next to the pyramids the Sphinx at
tracts flic attention ot every traveler.
It is the most lonesome bachelor-like
object you over saw. All alone, it sits
about 500 yards from the great pyra
mid. It is called by the Arabs "the
father of terror or immensity." vIt is
supposed to be older than the oldest
pyramid, and is carved from the ad
amantine rock. Its paws arc 50 feet
in length, its total length is given ns
140 feet, but those feet seem short
when tho Sphinx is compared with the
pyramids. Some idea of the size of
this fellow may bp gathered when you
imagine him to be 30 feet from brow to
chin and 14 feet across the brow. A
stono discovered by Mariette Bey, now
in the museum nt Cairo, contains the
proof that tho Sphinx antedates the
pyramids. Speaking of the Sphinx,
kinglake said: Laugh and mock if
you will at the worship of stone idols,
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While the earth's crust was forming a
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unusually large god. So to my mind
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the great pyramid staggers the mind in
every attempt to account for it. The
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the desert like huge haystacks are
smaller than the one considered, so I
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