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National Geographic : 1925 Feb
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THlE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE () I'ulihers 1'hoto service TIIE SUGAR-CANE MARKET NEAR IIASAN MOSQUE, CAIRO Scientific irrigation has led to increase of Egypt's sugar-cane crops, particularly south of Cairo. An inferior sugar cane, introduced from India, grown throughout the length of the Egyptian section of the Nile, is a native equivalent for chewing gum. Hasan Mosque, like many other minareted mosques in Cairo, is a combination church and school. single garment draped around his lower body in graceful folds. "Mummy" is not the word ! There lay a man. The preser vation was perfection itself, though he had been dead some thousands of years. His skin was blue-black. Whether that was the life color, I am unable to state, but I presume it might have been. Of a certainty, the Egyptians of old who lived in this Luxor-Khartum climate were not white men. The intense sun rays would have attended to that. He had finger nails almost an inch long, and the hands were thin and finely drawn. Hlis lips were a little too full for a white man's, but the nose was aquiline and high. A VISIT TOTE SOCIAL CENTER OF QUEEN IIATSIIEPSUT, TIIE "BLUE LADY" We climbed up the steep side walls, from the Valley of the Kings, to meet our donkeys, silhouetted against the sky, and went to the resthouse for luncheon. Later, in the cool of the afternoon, we visited the ancient social center of Queen Hatshepsut, who might be called the Blue Lady because she made famous the blue glaze, so distinctive among Egyptian an tiquities. Porter saw a blue bead in the ruins. She said not a word to me, but searched until she found five more. Think of it! Six ancient Egyptian blue beads found by one's self! Do not the Arabs say, "The antiquities belong to him who finds them" ? So she put them in her pocket. Then she searched some more, and pres ently she found three green beads and four red ones. But Illatshepsut favored only blue! The find proved to be glass beads off a very modern donkey's fly brush! Soon we headed the donkeys toward the Nile. We passed Arab farmers, who greeted us with "Salaam, Sahib," and we replied "Salaam." We met Arab women, too, who (lid not cover their faces; work ing women cannot be bothered. 130
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