Show FROM erom GALT FORNIA TO catro CAIRO AND BACK IN SIX SEX WEEKS JULES veane A meme MERE SNAIL hullo and my friend binks whom I 1 had last seen in the west a few weeks ago and whom I 1 met yesterday in broadway 99 you here still your a nice fellow I 1 thought you were going to egypt I 1 am off to europe tomorrow to morrow aden do you go go V sald eaid 1 I grgo go where ive beel been ano no no replied he If youve forgotten dont you remember you promised me at san francisco elle the other day that wed go over to eu ope together pm im oft off to france for tile the winter sailing tomorrow to morrow if you can manage it at such short abort notice why not come como with me well have a high old time together but 1 I 1 repeated atye seer seen ll 11 been mcbeen asked be he been where been to london baid bald baid eaid 1 I ayes gyes yes 1 was his answer but fm pm gol goi going on to palls palis and I 1 thought yot yon you yon s but ive been to pans paris too baid said 1 I been to paris 11 exclaimed he yeb gyes yes to paris on my way to rome borne you know romme borne have you been to rome borne since bince I 1 saw baw you yon what on oa earth were you doing there doing there I 1 said ca why going to egypt Is mailia malila tel teiei el kabir cairo calro all that kind hind of thing the war you know this was tras almost too much for him been to 0 o egypto he gasped and andall ali oil through the war why it Is only seven weeks ago that we were at san francisco tog together etherl etheri bau bat I 1 had another shaf shaft t in my quiver for him yet seven weeks I 1 said no youre youra wrong by a hundred hours its its nearly eight weeks and now I 1 continued ive got to travel up to hundred and something street to see jones you remember jonee but binks was gasping too much to remember jones so soi sol I 1 went on ill 1211 be hanged banged if I 1 know how im ever to get there these horrible long distances bother me frightful frightfully lyl how you new yorkers manage to get about as you do I 1 cant imagine it ita take me half my life I 1 knolto get to this precious hundred and something street but I 1 must start at once no time to waste ivo uva got young children growing up goodby good by and I 1 left binks gasping yet I 1 had said raid nothing that was not strictly true in seven weeks and a hald half I 1 had left jelt binks at absan san ban francisco and found lound bir sir garnet Wo lesley at alexandria sailed with the british fleet through the suez canal to ismail Is mailia mallia i a march marched ed with the british troops through the land liand of goshen seen the actions of Mah same kass Hass maln waln and tol tel el kabir entered cairo with the guards seen arabi a prie frie prisoner oner and young da chair at liberty come baek back again across E europe drope to london packed up my wife my portmanteaus mante aus and my children and got back baek on to broadway theto is no n 0 doub doubt t of I 1 it t as a wl wh e friend gravely remarked under the influence of planked blanked binde elude at chablis alwo we live in times that veno were quito quite unknown to the ancients and how did I 1 do it weil well I 1 dont hee nee that I 1 could very well have helped doing it of course if I 1 had determined not to do it I 1 could have refused to got out of bed ted at san ban Franc franciseo francisco lacoon on the of juliand july and remained in bed till today to day or I 1 could havo have thrown myself out of the union pacific cars which the quality of the food supplied abundantly justifies passengers in doing or I 1 might havo have taken the e crews out of the tha germanic and let the bottom fall out ont in the middle middie of the atlan atina tie tic io or I 1 might have betrayed sir garnet wolseley and his hla army to the merry egyptians and have remained in cairo and booso ooze pantaloons or a pasha or I 1 might have exposed my head to the egyptian sun kun and turned green and had a sunstroke and died mad or I 1 might have choked myself with canal mud the only rations served out to the british grenadiers Grena diers in the desert or I 1 might have managed a to lose the nurses nursed trunk oa on the live liverpool wharf and been there looking for it to thia this ony oay or I 1 might have done a great many other things to pro vent myself getting along that bhatia is to say if I 1 had been really determined to do so if I 1 bad taken an oath for instance or a solemn affer affirmation or had bad promised my wide wife or had bad the money or any thing else equally binding on the conscience but as it happened I 1 wab waa not determined ter mined to prevent myself on the contrary I 1 was waa all on my own side and doing a all ail I 1 I 1 could to help myself there was no rivalry between us none of those mean petty I 1 lealou ea louIes ies iea that so of often otten ten ted keep men from pulling together and so getting behind so finding myself at san francisco on july 25 and having a desire to bee eee the he egyptian war I 1 put off going to a luncheon party at the milt house and want to E egypt agypt there was no help for it sir garnet garnot wolseley wol woi seley eley would have refused I 1 knew most positively to bring hib his hia army over to california simply for foi my convenience nor was arabi likely to bs be more so I 1 put the best face on the matter aud and started for new now york yorla timing catch the germanic sailing from new now york ou the arrived at new now york I 1 dissipated the twelve hours at my mv disposal by writing a description for fotr the world of my weeks railway journey and by supping with friends for about five hours houra at the astor house thus tediously occupied dawn da pvn surprised usand us and aud having equipped myself for my voyage to england by losing my hat hatbox box bos I 1 got on board the germanic with the help of the captain the crew and some occasional assistance from the engines and the bedroom stewart I 1 got the steamer across the atlantic on the eight day and just in time to catch the night mail up to lorl loll don that very day the tho the jtb ath bo the indian mail mau via brindisi started from charin charing C cross station but as I 1 was not hurrying myself I 1 lett left iago it go and spent a quiet day in london watching our dog trying to catch the next door cat eat but our dog was waa at a disadvantage for the cat was up on the top of an apple the dog was only on tiptoe tip toe too on the grass in tho intervals of this laborious exercise I 1 refreshed myself by exchanging telegrams with naples to find out the exact hour at which the steamer of the Messa mossa gerles geries lm maritime due to bail on the following tuesday was to start and in completing for the publishers the manuscript of my new books book sinners and saints nor for for details of which eee zee if the gentle editor will allow tae tat advertisement the steamer I 1 in n question ailed lulled from naples I 1 found at so that starting from london on saturday night I 1 could just catch it to start was the work of a moment to get to naples the work of 65 hours houra arrived at naples 1 found thanks to my having telegraphed from pard paris turin and rome borne entreating the tho company to keep the steam steams e waiting a few minutes for me and thanks to the courtesy of the compan company vin yin in doing eo so that I 1 was just in time I 1 got on board at and aad by 8 delock welock we were out in the bay the ship waa was the melbourne a now one and anxious to start with a good record for her first trip she was pushed elong along at apra abba ata afra a rate that brought us to port said bald at the mediterranean di end 0 of the suez canal on angust 13 but I 1 wanted to get to eo so I 1 got on shore chore without delay to soe see soe if anything could tako take tae me roe there ho no one could tell me so clutching my two pieces p ecca ecos of luggage I 1 went down to the jetty letty again end pulled neross across to tho the mon a arca arch r c A m man an of f war a r on boa board rd I 1 learned that a gunboat was just juat getting under way for Alexand alexandria fda fla and the commander comi nander signalling sign alling it I 1 wab waa taken on board and went off again my whole delay having occupied me only about achour an hour gun boats have no schedule time to keep and I 1 found myself therefore in spite spits of my digression to port mald maid at the tho hotel abbatt abbati in poor bombarded ruined rained alexandria only nive five hours later than the brindisi passengers and still two days ahead of sir garnet wolseley wois Wole eley eloy on the of augut august the British fleet sailed from Is Ismail mailla mailia iff lff and it was worth all the tho journey from san francisco to see that stately proc proa s bion eion of great ships moving along the egyptian coast ina lna in a splendid moonlight night we anchored in aboukir bay hoffnel leons island and next day ina in a splendid sunshine the squadron moved on to port sald said passed in majestic file down the suez canal and a hundred ships all told were mustered in Is mailia iia lia bay ray how they bombarded the egyptians out of Ne flache and how the troops landed of the best tha england ba has A and how they marched and halted hailed and starved for twelve days how the egyptians found out that we did not think it worth while to patrol the desert or keep our scouts awake and how in consequence they attacked our camps from time to time how at last on september sir garnet got his hia mun men together and rushed the egyptians at tel tei el rebin every body knows and after the battle we refreshed ourselves oure elves elvea with the grapes which arabi arab bey had haj thoughtfully provided for his own gumption consumption coL and marched to kagazig and then theu took the train to cairo and surely never was waa such sach a thing known in war before the enemy beaten were falling failing back siong the railway track in mobs of a thousand at a time apon their capital city while the conquerors that is to say a commander in chief tind his staff a company or two of english guard guarde and hait naif a car full of correspondents and artists were rattling niong along the rails in a train right through the middle of the betrea ing foe to get to that city bea before belore fore them the humor of it was delightful till the then r i the egyptians had bad had all the trains and the british soldiers had had bad all the walking but bat the charge of the highlanders High landers changed all that and the day after the fight at tel ei jal kabir the egyptians plodding along on foot toot by the sido side eldorf of the track had the pleasure cleasur e of kee bee fag lag the tho brit leh uh soldiers going through them riding ridi ngat at their ease antho in tho c the faces of the enemy as they trudged alongside making for the same point as oure ourselves olves elves perspiring under the weight weigh t of their arms an and a seeing us throwing nig fig skins ekich and peach pips bips out of the windows aa as depass we passed frere ivere not amiable in expression but they let us alone and so bu cairo waa taken without much more mere fighting I 1 spent two days in cairo I 1 was the first to shake hands with young du chair and to tell him that his ilfe life was saoe cafe my presence in his room roona was itself his first assurance and through all my life I 1 shall re member the pleasure it gave me to read in the boys face the intensity of his relief and gratitude but I 1 left him very soon to telegraph to his mother that I 1 h had bad ad actu actually bily illy seen him alive and welland then I 1 wen went to see lee the troops in the citadel and then sir garnet in his palace and then arabi bey in his prison and th enand then and then it was too busy a time to recount the details of I 1 its is passing but on the third day I 1 heard that an experimental train was to be run from cairo to alexandria the 41 experiment was to see whether the egyptians would let it get through or whether they would wreck it and murder marder its contents so I 1 went by it only one other engiishman englishman english man was on the train melton prior the jal Ial lamented laen rented tented ted teo and genial artist of the illustrated london mews aws and we ran a near risk of or losing our lives for the E egyptians beyond had not heard hoard h har lr of the occupation of cairo and they stopped the train and swarmed round it an armed mib raib of t thousand and howled and threatened but our window shutters were up and they never found out that there were any englishmen in the train at al all nud aud so when they thy were ware tired of howling and threaten threatening lag Jag they let lot tho the train go at the next nest station it waa was just the he hamo tame only worse for there huldred hundred bedouins bedein Bedou ins arabis garrison wo woe wee e waiting for us and it looked more than ulan or 01 co cc as if wo mo should have to defend our lives but at rt last they believed tho the E egyptians ay who were in the other carriages and ami who swore by all their gods that the whole british army was coming along be to hind us and lef leh 1 m go and after that we wo did r ib i stop again until we BW baw the redcoats red coata costa of iho the ba british rl Is b sowers soldiers hard at wor k Wa mantling dismantling Q arabis arabia fortifications before alexandria the next day a french steamer sailed for marseilles and on the I 1 found myself again on the mediterranean term nan on the I 1 left marseilles by the mail mall train for london from london to new york was twelve days and eo so it came about that exactly seven weeks and a half from tho the day that I 1 bat eat eating with binks binka at the buss russ house in ban san francisco I 1 was waa back again in the states and I 1 had seen the egyptian war in the interval so 80 that the rate at which I 1 actually traveled beats brats juies jules vernes vernea round the world by just thirty days PHIL LV y world |