My Winter on the Nile
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Warner Charles Dudley. My Winter on the Nile
PREFATORY NOTE
CHAPTER I.—AT THE GATES OF THE EAST
CHAPTER II.—WITHIN THE PORTALS
CHAPTER III.—EGYPT OF TO-DAY
CHAPTER IV.—CAIRO
CHAPTER V.—IN THE BAZAAR
CHAPTER VI.—MOSQUES AND TOMBS
CHAPTER VII.—MOSLEM WORSHIP.—THE CALL TO PRAYER
CHAPTER VIII.—THE PYRAMIDS
CHAPTER IX.—PREPARATIONS FOR A VOYAGE
CHAPTER X.—ON THE NILE
CHAPTER XI.—PEOPLE ON THE RIVER BANKS
CHAPTER XII.—SPENDING CHRISTMAS ON THE NILE
CHAPTER XIII.—SIGHTS AND SCENES ON THE RIVER
CHAPTER XIV.—MIDWINTER IN EGYPT
CHAPTER XV.—AMONG THE RUINS OF THEBES
CHAPTER XVI.—HISTORY IN STONE
CHAPTER XVII.—KARNAK
CHAPTER XVIII.—ASCENDING THE RIVER
CHAPTER XIX.—PASSING THE CATARACT OF THE NILE
CHAPTER XX.—ON THE BORDERS OF THE DESERT
CHAPTER XXI—ETHIOPIA
CHAPTER XXII.—LIFE IN THE TROPICS. WADY HALFA
CHAPTER XXIII.—APPROACHING THE SECOND CATARACT
CHAPTER XXIV.—GIANTS IN STONE
CHAPTER XXV.—FLITTING THROUGH NUBIA
CHAPTER XXVI.—MYSTERIOUS PHILÆ
CHAPTER XXVII.—RETURNING
CHAPTER XXVIII.—MODERN FACTS AND ANCIENT MEMORIES
CHAPTER XXIX.—THE FUTURE OF THE MUMMY’S SOUL
CHAPTER XXX.—FAREWELL TO THEBES
CHAPTER XXXI.—LOITERING BY THE WAY
CHAPTER XXXII.—JOTTINGS
CHAPTER XXXIII.—THE KHEDIVE
CHAPTER XXXIV.—THE WOODEN MAN
CHAPTER XXXV.—ON THE WAY HOME
CHAPTER XXXVI.—BY THE RED SEA
CHAPTER XXXVII.—“EASTWARD HO!”
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“My Winter on the Nile,” and its sequel, “In the Levant,” which record the experiences and observations of an Oriental journey, were both published in 1876; but as this volume was issued only by subscription, it has never reached the large public which is served by the general book trade.
It is now republished and placed within the reach of those who have read “In the Levant.” Advantage has been taken of its reissue to give it a careful revision, which, however, has not essentially changed it. Since it was written the Khedive of so many ambitious projects has given way to his son, Tufik Pasha; but I have let stand what was written of Ismail Pasha for whatever historical value it may possess. In other respects, what was written of the country and the mass of the people in 1876 is true now. The interest of Americans in the land of the oldest civilization has greatly increased within the past few years, and literature relating to the Orient is in more demand than at any previous time.
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And they were sweet no more. They must have been lemons in oranges’ clothing. The flattering tongue of that boy and our greed of tropical color made us owners of a lot of them, most of which went overboard before we reached Alexandria, and would make fair lemonade of the streak of water we passed through.
At noon we sail away into the warm south. We have before us the beautiful range of Aspromonte, and the village of Reggio bear which in 1862 Garibaldi received one of his wounds, a sort of inconvenient love-pat of fame. The coast is rugged and steep. High up is an isolated Gothic rock, pinnacled and jagged. Close by the shore we can trace the railway track which winds round the point of Italy, and some of the passengers look at it longingly; for though there is clear sky overhead, the sea has on an ungenerous swell; and what is blue sky to a stomach that knows its own bitterness and feels the world sinking away from under it?
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