Archives for December 2005

Between Alexandria and Cairo
In the afternoon of the 19th [April, 1826], attended by the Janissary Selim, we mounted our donkeys and rode to the Canal of Mahmoudieh, where our Maash was waiting for us. The Camseen had sunk, the moon shone brightly, the […]
2917 words, written December 27 2005, in the early morning and filed in The Travellers Journals

My Christmas with the Copts
It was on Christmas Day last year that a telegram came to Cairo for a nurse to go as soon as possible, to take charge of a case of typhoid in a Coptic family at Assiout. I was not […]
1232 words, written December 19 2005, in the late morning and filed in The Travellers Journals

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