Identifier: lifetravelsliter00conwrich (find matches)
Title: The life, travels, and literary career of Bayard Taylor
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Conwell, Russell Herman, 1843-1925
Subjects: Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878
Publisher: Boston, B. B. Russell & Co., New York, C. Drew
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rip, and fre-quently visited the shore and had some very pleasantand instructive interviews with the tribes who live inthat region. At one place he visited a village of theHassaniyehs, and contrary to the experience of manyother travellers, he was cordially invited to their circleand treated with sincere hospitality. He mentionedin his book the dance of welcome which the youngwomen of the village performed before him, and de-scribed with interesting detail their motions, features,forms, voices, and habits. Thus, with visits to sav-ages, interviews with wild beasts, and exquisite viewsof the wildest scenery ever beheld by man, he floatedback to the friends and dwellings of Ivhartoum. His stay in Khartoum, on his return, was brief,because of the approaching sickly season; but everyhour of his time, when awake, was occupied in visit-ing and being visited. Native chiefs, Arab merchants,holy men of the Moslem faith. Catholic priests, prin-cesses, soldiers, consuls, boatmen, and tame lions,
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m THE DESEET. 179 seemed equally at home in his presence ; and his staywas a most delightful one for all concerned. Hisparting with his friends at Khartoum was akin to theseparation of life-long friends, or the breaking of afamily circle. To him the whole world was kin. From Khartoum he travelled in a caravan of camels,chartered by him for an escort, leaving the Nileand striking into the desert. With camel-drivershard to control, with a burning sun overhead, andsands nearly as hot beneath, he traversed the desertunharmed. Once he slept with a deadly snake underhis blanket, unconscious of his fearful danger until herolled up his blanket in the morning. The open air,the free sun, sleeping on the sand, and eating thecoarse food of the natives, gave him a vigor andhealthy delight which inconveniences and dangerscould not overcome. Sometimes the heat was sointense that the skin of his face peeled oiF, and onceor twice he felt the effects of the desert intoxication,resulting from the monoto

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