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An Obelisk for Central Park
“Forgive the pun, Your Highness, but any old obelisk will do.” Written by Edmund S. Whitman Images by the TIE staff Shortly after the Suez Canal Inaugural of 1869, the Khedive of Egypt, Ismail Pasha, had a conversation with William
2018 words, written November 22 2005,
in the early morning
and filed in A Deeper Glance
Passages of Eastern Travel
by an American Our engagements in Cairo made it impossible for us to remain in Alexandria as long as we could have desired. To the traveler who wishes to see only the external appearance of things, or to look only
8047 words, written November 17 2005,
in the late afternoon
and filed in The Travellers Journals
A Visit to the Convent of Sittna (Our Lady), Damiane (2)
Read the first part of this story Connected with our labors in the book-shop, I must give some account of our friend Makar’s doings. Poor man! it seemed he had to be every where, and with that one eye of
8753 words, written November 15 2005,
in the early morning
and filed in The Travellers Journals
Cairo the Grand
In the night we dropped down to Bulac, and, when we looked out in the morning, we found ourselves moored close in front of the palace of Ismael Pasha (he had been murdered, or rather put to death, by the
7432 words, written November 7 2005,
in the afternoon
and filed in The Travellers Journals
My Visit to the Pharaoh City
You need a lot of credulity when you go to Egypt, and a superb contempt for anything less than three thousand years old. If you don’t have these, you spoil your holiday by questioning the wonderful stones told by
3567 words, written November 4 2005,
in the early afternoon
and filed in The Travellers Journals
A Visit to the Convent of Sittna (Our Lady), Damiane
Awid, our bookseller at Cairo, having left a few days previous in our new boat the Morning Star, on her first colporteuring trip, I left Cairo on Tuesday, May 5, to join him at Semanoud. Reached Tanta at noun, where
8543 words, written November 3 2005,
in the early afternoon
and filed in The Travellers Journals
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