Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Round Africa: Being Some Account of the Peoples and Places of the Dark Continent
Letters from Egypt, says, It is impossible to say how exactly like the early parts of the Bible every act of life is here, and how totally new it seems, when one reads it on the spot here! She even heard a native address a Pasha in the very same words Jacob spoke to Pharaoh, Few and evil have been my days, and when she visited a farm, the proprietor cried to his people, Take now fine meal and bake cakes quickly. And the hospitality to the stranger and traveller of which we read so much in the Bible, this lady experienced here. Meeting a troop of graceful Arab women, carrying jars poised upon the head, they all wished her to go to their village and partake of food; while an old weaver, whose loom she walked in to inspect, wished to set a piece of bread before her.
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