Show diio peasant such of alio fellars fellahs fel lahs or ai have some liello culture know that the waters of alio nile come from alio llio lacil 0 dark men from the mountains mount of abyssinia in tho at alio time 0 tho war with abyssinia it that alio nile baj slow to ric and I 1 have ofton hoard hern ami therein iho villages alio llio opinion expressed aliat no doubt the king il Ia babech bech was revenging himself on the ini ay preventing alio llio waters i tho nilo from flowing idowu to thorn or that an ancient throat of ethiopian kings i 0 to loal ohl 0 o nilo before its entrance into egypt through a canal iulo abo jhoil set boing out i hut the inhabitants of abo leoro isolated inland villages have not even such lights as jhc thc c and should you ch ioco to boino across lucli a fellah crouching at tho door of his mud hut holding hid siesta and quietly constont con tont ith ti liello mental n possible smoking his and should you ask hini a to his opinion of tbt filoi and its origin you in most caca lind eliat instead of entering upon question and hypotheses ho yoila YO ild with 1 grateful glanco li caren ans ncr simply jiin allahl i 0 from goil or from and he would no doubt on his sido turn ques lionar and ask you have you in your country also 1 cilc and great would bo his astonishment and surprise on hearing that our vegetation our crop and our orchard are nourished by atar which falls from tho clouds to lim lio hardly ever only in a rare anil passing shower this seems a very precarious form of agricol 1 lire nothing is more natural than that alio egyptian who lias been his own tillage and whose conceptions of the world of men and bilings arc of the most limited should considering that alio isiac cirei him all lie hn andall ho needs look upon it a a direct gift of god whether it bo that his land ia sc favorably situated that the nile hows over it at tho time of inundation or that alio llio water reaches it through arli lecial irrigation by mean 0 a water wheel worked by the camel or tho oan of the peasant or if he be very poor owning camel nor i and obliged to pull up tho water in shallow buckets made of aud with liia own hand distribute it over his fields this is certain that so far aa alia nile has blessed hi land will his corn or his cotton grow and tho harvest will be in exact proportion to the amount of moisture which the land has man twi i that grow in the canals out of nile chiy 13 thu beloved pipe anil also alio water jar out of lie drinks and lio drinks incalculable quantities of water anil even lor the the peculiar kind of kettledrum kettle drum with ho all his monotonous songs and religious observances docs the nile give him alio clay I 1 have just said the ii 1 great water drinker and I 1 may add so arc nil foreigners in for nowhere alic that 1 know of i alio llio water so clear and delicious this is doubt owing to the constant allowing over a bed of finest sand and lo im filtered or cooled in a largo urn of chiy perfectly cold ami very refreshing dr A in liters mao tazi ic |