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Entered according: to Act of Congress, in J une, 1869, by J. W. Burke & Cos., in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the So. District of Georgia.
Vol. Ill—No. 29.
A SCENE IN CAIRO.
Ajf UPRESENTED in the picture
is a scene in Cairo, the capital
2k and largest city in Egypt. If
you will look on the map of Africa, you
will find that Egypt is in the Northeast
ern part of that continent. It is divided
into Upper and Lower Egypt. Along
the Mediterranean sea, the country
spreads out into a level space of land, on
which, as far as the eye can reach, you
see nothing but a few date trees, a few
palm trees, and groups of huts, built of
mud.
Near the place where the Nile enters
the sea, it is called the Delta. This is
overflowed by the Nile every year, and
is one of the most fruitful spots on the
globe.
In Lower Egypt there are several
great cities. Alexandria was built
there more than two thousand years
ago, by a celebrated conqueror of an
cient Greece, called Alexander.
This place now abounds in the most
astonishing remains of its former great
ness. For the space of six miles, around
the present town, which is much small
er than the ancient city, nothing is to
be seen but fragments of stone which
belonged to the ancient edifices.
There are heaps, sometimes piled as
high as a house, of pillars, columns, and
obelisks. Many of these are beautifully
carved.
Among them is one obelisk cut out
of a solid piece of stone, which meas
ures seventy feet in length. It is cov
ered with sculptured figures called
hieroglyphics. These hieroglyphics
formed the ancient written language of
the Egyptians. This obelisk now lies
upon the ground. It once stood erect,
and was called Cleopatra’s Needle, after
Cleopatra, a very celebrated and beau
tiful Queen of ancient Egypt.
N; ;ar this city are several remarkable
burying places, called catacombs. In
these catacombs are found at this day.
the bodies of persons who were buried
two or three thousand years ago. These
bodies were embalmed, and they still
MACON, GEORGIA, JANUARY 15, 1870.
retain the almost complete form and
appearance of the persons when living.
Cairo is also a very remarkable city
in Lower Egypt. The streets are
crooked, and crowded with men, horses,
camels, asses and dogs. These are
continually bustling through the town,
and raise an almost constant cloud of
dust. Cairo is the largest city in Africa,
and contains more inhabitants than
Morocco.
Upper Egypt lies to the south of
Lower Egypt. In the midst of a vast
SCENE IN CAIR9.
sandy plain on the western side of the
Nile are some of the most remarkable
edifices in the world. These are the
Pyramids. Thlre are a number of
them, but the largest is near five hun
dred feet in height. It is built of large
piece jof stone. Its form is square, and
one of the sides, at the bottom, meas
ures about seven hundred feet.
Still farther south, in Upper Egypt,
and towards Nubia, the Nile flows
through a narrow valley between two
ranges of mountains. In this valley,
are many remarkable remains of an
tiquity. The most wonderful of these,
are those of Thebes. This city must
have been more magnificent, by far,
than any city now on the earth. Its
ruins are scattered on both sides of the
Nile, and cover a surface of nearly thir
ty miles in extent. The ground is cov
ered with columns of immense magni
tude, statues, rows of obelisks, and other
works which fill the mind with astonish
ment. It is impossible to convey any
idea of these magnificent ruins.
This great city was of very ancient
date. It is mentioned by authors who
wrote more than two thousand years
ago, as exhibiting the same spectacle
then, as now. Still farther south, to
wards Nubia, there are other very re-
markable remains of antiquity.
It is evident that in the earliest ages,
Egypt has been filled with people, who
lived in splendid cities, who possessed
a great deal of learning, and had the
knowledge of many arts which are now
lost.
Never be afraid to do right because
somebody will laugh at you. Never do
wrong because somebody will applaud
you. Never be ashamed of an old hat
ifitiswell brushed, and the best you
have.
-
Self-Rule. —A man must first gov
ern himself ere he be fit to govern a
family ; and his family, ere he be fit to
bear the government in the Comim u
wealth.
Whole No. 133.
Written for Burke’s Weekly
SAL-O-QUAH;
OR,
Boy-Life Among the Indians,
3Y REV. F. R. GOULDING,
Author of “Young Marooncr's “ Marooner's
Islandetc.
CHAPTER XXXI.
ADIEU TO SEE-QUO-YAH —SCOSSITY’S WOLF
TRAP—PEN FOR CROWS —TURKEY NOOSE
—SCOSSITY’S HOUSE AND HOSPITALITY
—SPUNK A GOOD STYPTIC FOR CUT
WOUNDS COUSIN ALECK READS FOR
SCO! SUr-EQUAH.
lv%3yE did not keep See-quo-yah
f long from his silver-smithing.
Much interested though we
were in him, he did not seem to be so
much interested in us. Indeed we could
not but believe, from his undisguised
restlessness, that he would be better
satisfied if we should take ourselves
away. My father and cousin left reluc
tantly, for they would have been glad
to learn more from his own lips of his
labors and plans, and to have lent him
a helping hand in his praiseworthy ef
forts. But See-quo-yah was strongly
marked with two prominent traits of
Indian character, taciturnity, and a
proud self-reliance. Our parting was
as unceremonious as our meeting ; we
wished him “Good-day,” interpreted
for us by Kaneeka, to which the only
response he returned was a grunt.
In the act of leaving, Scossity went
to a closely-shaded nook, and there un
covered the half of a slaughtered deer,
nicely wrapped in its own skin. It had
been killed that morning and the other
part given to See-quo-yah. The portion
rrserved for himself was thrown over
his shoulder, and with easy pace he
preceded us in the trail that led to his
house.
On our way we saw, what had been
concealed by the bushes in our passing
in the other direction, a singular-look
ing pen not far from our path, which,