Image from page 346 of "Toward the sunrise, being sketches of travel in Europe and the East, to which is added a Memorial sketch of the Rev. William Morley Punshon" (1883)
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Authors: Johnston, Hugh, 1840-1922 Punshon, William Morley, 1824-1881
Subjects: Punshon, William Morley, 1824-1881 Egypt -- Description and travel Palestine -- Description and travel Europe -- Description and travel Israel -- Description and travel Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Toronto, Briggs
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back of one of them and sent himaway. The others followed good-naturedly, each ask-ing bacJcsheesh for the interest they had taken in theaflfair. From Ismailia to Cairo you are broughtthoroughly into contact with Egyptian scenes and life.At first an arid desert of sand flows around you. Thenyou pass little villages that are nothing but mud heaps,with swarms of naked children rolling about in thedirt, and old men and women in rags and filth, squat-ting on the ground. Now the vegetation deepens andthe landscape is made picturesque by the gracefulpalm throwing out its tufts of green, and by whiteminarets, glistening here and there in the sunlight.We have entered the territory fertilized by the silverstreams from the Nile, and everywhere the people areirrigating the fields. Every sort of appliance is used.There is the shadoof, which is simply the old arrange- Sketches of Travel. 2>^1 ment which used to hang over our wells before pumpscame into vogue, a long pole on a pivot post, with a
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Shadoof. weight at one end and a bucket attached to the otheiHere the bucket is a basket and the water is lifted out 328 Toward the Sunrise ; or, of the canal and emptied into a gutter and so carriedover the fields. There is the sakieh, a great coggedwheel with buckets hanging to it. The wheel isturned by a camel,* or cow, or buffalo, with eyesbandaged to prevent the animal seeing that it is walk-ing in a circle, else it would become dizzy and fall. Ateach revolution of the wheel the buckets are emptiedinto a trough. A more primitive method is for twomen to stand, almost naked, with a basket betweenthem and lift the waters to the higher level whereothers stand ready to divert it as they wish, closingup one little channel or opening up another with theirfeet. This was the very method the Israelites usedwhen they dwelt in Goshen and the promise was madeconcerning Canaan. It is not as the land of Egyptwhere thou sowest thy seed and waterest it with thyfoot; but a land of hills and valley
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Image from page 346 of "Toward the sunrise, being sketches of travel in Europe and the East, to which is added a Memorial sketch of the Rev. William Morley Punshon" (1883)
Identifier: towardsunrisebei00johnuoft
Authors: Johnston, Hugh, 1840-1922 Punshon, William Morley, 1824-1881
Subjects: Punshon, William Morley, 1824-1881 Egypt -- Description and travel Palestine -- Description and travel Europe -- Description and travel Israel -- Description and travel Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Toronto, Briggs
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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back of one of them and sent himaway. The others followed good-naturedly, each ask-ing bacJcsheesh for the interest they had taken in theaflfair. From Ismailia to Cairo you are broughtthoroughly into contact with Egyptian scenes and life.At first an arid desert of sand flows around you. Thenyou pass little villages that are nothing but mud heaps,with swarms of naked children rolling about in thedirt, and old men and women in rags and filth, squat-ting on the ground. Now the vegetation deepens andthe landscape is made picturesque by the gracefulpalm throwing out its tufts of green, and by whiteminarets, glistening here and there in the sunlight.We have entered the territory fertilized by the silverstreams from the Nile, and everywhere the people areirrigating the fields. Every sort of appliance is used.There is the shadoof, which is simply the old arrange- Sketches of Travel. 2>^1 ment which used to hang over our wells before pumpscame into vogue, a long pole on a pivot post, with a
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Shadoof. weight at one end and a bucket attached to the otheiHere the bucket is a basket and the water is lifted out 328 Toward the Sunrise ; or, of the canal and emptied into a gutter and so carriedover the fields. There is the sakieh, a great coggedwheel with buckets hanging to it. The wheel isturned by a camel,* or cow, or buffalo, with eyesbandaged to prevent the animal seeing that it is walk-ing in a circle, else it would become dizzy and fall. Ateach revolution of the wheel the buckets are emptiedinto a trough. A more primitive method is for twomen to stand, almost naked, with a basket betweenthem and lift the waters to the higher level whereothers stand ready to divert it as they wish, closingup one little channel or opening up another with theirfeet. This was the very method the Israelites usedwhen they dwelt in Goshen and the promise was madeconcerning Canaan. It is not as the land of Egyptwhere thou sowest thy seed and waterest it with thyfoot; but a land of hills and valley
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