Identifier: wanderingsinbibl00mill (find matches)
Title: Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Miller, D(aniel) L(ong), 1841- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mount Morris, Ill., The Brethren's publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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urn from Ethiopia. From the window of our compartment we see in thedistance a large city with numerous mosques and minarets.As we draw nearer to the place we have a glimpse of thetop of a great pyramid, and all doubt as to the name of thecity vanishes. It can be no other than Cairo, the city ofthe Khaliffs Our train pulls into a large depot, and we areat once surrounded by a yelling mob of Arab donkey-boys,guides and cab-drivers. The noise is deafening, and con-fusion reigns supreme. Having taken the precaution tonotify the proprietor of the Khedival Hotel of our arrival,we remain quietly in the car until we hear some one call-ing Mr Mee-ler. It is the commissionnaire ot the no-te!who speaks a few words in English. Calling him to us,we place our baggage and ourselves in his charge, and aresoon rid of the crowd and comfortably located in a quiet,pleasant, home-like hotel. ■ Cairo is the one great oriental city in the world It hasan estimated population of four hundred thousand souls.
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WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 113 Among its permanent residents may be found ItaliansFrenchmen, Germans, Englishmen, Americans, Austrians,Greeks, together with Egyptians, Arabians, Fellah Settlers,Copts, Jews, Northern Africans, Beduins, Syrians, Persians,Indians, Negroes, and other oriental races. With its mixedpopulation and peculiar customs it is one of the most inter-esting cities in the world. The business streets on which the retail shops are lo-cated, bazaars, as they are called here, present a strikingappearance, and are filled with strange sights and scenes.We have traveled from the New World to the Old, but herein this oriental city is a world entirely new to us. Here wehave presented to us in the same street the contrasts be-tween barbarous, half-civilized and civilized life. It is akind of mosaic of the customs and habits of many nationsof the earth. It has well been called a living museum ofall imaginable and unimaginable phases of existence, of re-finement and degeneracy, o

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