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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 65: in Europe, Egypt, and Constantinople (search)
id this young engineer, and I was exceedingly grateful. On Friday, April 18th, we set out for Cairo. The English railroad, here as everywhere, was very complete and the journey comfortable all thootless in this weary land to attempt to engraft a new civilization upon the old. Arriving at Cairo, we found a commodious inn, the H6tel d'orient, and soon after met the missionaries who had comemuch interested to see how a body of English cavalry were kept in bivouac in some open spaces in Cairo. Their. camp was in order, but the men were behaving very much as if they were commissioned offhuman nature for a man to wish to have somebody below him. The next day after our arrival at Cairo we took our way to the Pyramids — from start to finish pursued by an army of beggars. My son's ituted guides. Poor people out there in the desert This was their only source of revenue. In Cairo we found the heat intense. The thermometer ran to 110° in the shade. We next went back to Al