Identifier: egyptpainteddesc00kell (find matches)
Title: Egypt painted and described
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Kelly, Robert Talbot, 1861-1934
Subjects: Egypt -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: New York University, Institute of Fine Arts Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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terdining in the little saloon of our yacht, would turn inand sleep till shortly before sunrise. No dramaticincident marked the trip, our only excitement beingperhaps occasioned by wandering cattle becoming en-tangled in our tent-ropes during the dark hours of thenight; otherwise it was simply one succession of daysin which easy travelling was combined with pleasantwork. Without entering into detailed description ofthe whole journey, one or two of the villages on thebanks may specially be mentioned. Mit Hadid is oneof the most picturesque of the many beautiful villagesthat we met with in Northern Egypt. I give anillustration of the scene, now unfortunately to a largeextent destroyed by the building of a light railwayalong the bank. The village of Salamun, which standsin a commanding position at a bend of the stream, hasmany points of interest. The village itself is of someimportance, and its tortuous and precipitous lanespresented many pictorial features ; the best view, 146 MIT HADID
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Canal Life in the Delta probably, is the one which I reproduce, where theirregular buildings of the village pile up picturesquelybehind the mosque, which forms the only really archi-tectural feature of the place. You will notice thatfrom the minaret of the mosque, which in itself is ofrather an unusual form, are some projecting poles;these are what remain of the scaffolding used in theerection of the building many hundred years ago, andwhich the builders forgot to remove on the completionof the work—a curious example of the Egyptian habitof laisser faire. The pool shown in my sketch lookedlovely from a distance, but closer acquaintance provedit to be one of the most filthy birkeh possible, andliterally alive with rats. Our camp here was across thecanal, our tents being pitched under a fine grove of gamase trees, from which we had a particularly fineview of town and river, as well as being free from theflies and smells which are the inevitable accompanimentto any congregation of nati

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