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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le channels to all parts of the field, and these narrowbanks again form the only defined pathway through thecultivated lands. As you ride along the people press upon you offersof hospitality in some form, and importune the travellerto honour the house by breaking bread in it. Onesuch invitation I remember very well. The farmhousein question stood on the opposite side of the canal,and its owner, who was resting beneath the shade ofthe fig-tree which overshadowed it, rose and beggedus to rest and have some refreshment. We declinedthe polite offer, but he, exclaiming that we shouldnever pass his esbeh without eating, mounted hishorse and chased us until we were forced to returnand do him this honour. This man, Shelil-en-Nebraishiby name, had been exiled from Egypt and took servicewith the Mahdi; he commanded a regiment of cavalryduring the early stages of the Mahdist rising, butdeserted and returned to Egypt on the appearance ofthe English, with whom he said he had no quarrel. 166 RACHEL
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Riding through the Land of Goshen The delay caused by this entertainment compelledus to quit the canal-bank and make the best of astraight course across the fields to Kahbuna, where weproposed to stay the night. The winding pathwaysof the fields, however, render it easy to mistake yourway, and we were a little uncertain as to the directionwe should take. Presently meeting a boy herding goats,we asked him were we right for Kahbuna. * Yes, yourexcellency, he replied, and had we known you werecoming this way we would have had a road madestraight for you. This reply was made in all serious-ness, and is a pretty instance of the graceful imageryof the East, which permeates all classes of society, andcertainly, among the poor fellahin of Egypt, lendspoetry to lives which are otherwise largely those ofdrudgery and toil. As we approach Kahbuna the country becomes in-creasingly beautiful, the groves of date-palms are morefrequent and larger in extent—indeed, in many partsthey become almost on

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