Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller - a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land (1885) (14773127875)

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Title: Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905
Subjects: Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriant
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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sun began to appear. All Nature seemed to rejoice.The rays gilded the tops of the mountains ; then they crowned the waitingpropylasons of the city, and the ancient temple of Memnon. They began to fall upon the head of the statue. Hark! Do gods of stone indeed speak .•* Do they play upon harps .- There falls on the air a beautiful note. Now another. Seven. Sabina listened in awe. The sun was now above the horizon. It was like a harp-note and not a voice, said a Roman noble. It is the harp of Egypt, said another. It is the harp of Egypt, indeed, said an ILgyptian noble. But did yenot hear .-* the harp-strings of Egypt seem breaking. The harp of Memnon is broken ! the voice of the god is still. On hisbroken throne and column may still be found inscribed these words : — /, Piibliits Balbimis, have heard the voice of the divine Memnon. I came incompany with the Empress Sabina, at the first hour of the swis course, the i^thyear of the reign of Hadrian, the 2z^th of the month of November
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•A CHAPTER IV. COST OF JOURNEYS IN THE LEVANT. Story of Seimiramis and Sardanapalus. HAD been the intention of Mr.Leland to spend six months intravel, and to choose routes accord-ing to his own moods and inclina-tions. He was a man of amplemeans and generous impulses, andafter twenty years devotion to business, hewished that his six months rest should be as freefrom care as possible. One day, he and Charlie stepped over from the Golden Cross to the American Exchange, to see if there were any letters waiting for them, as several steamers had just arrived. Each had a liberal mail, and they sat down amid the piles of papers at the Exchange to read them. Father, said Charlie at length, could a boy visit Egypt andPalestine for five hundred dollars ? From America? I think so. If he were to take second-classsaloon fares on the steamer, and travel second class in Europe. Hecertainly could visit Alexandria, Cairo, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and theJordan for that sum. Why do you ask.?