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    MR. MARSTON AND MR. STANLEY AT CAIRO.

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    taste The of literary its publish and ¦ er artistic , M . Gervais contents Courtellement of this part .

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    occupation have taken . place This in is Al followed giers since by ' the Farfaria French , ' a

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    b grap 1 y On H hic . the Berand account Quays , which of / b the y is Charles full immi of grants historic de Galland to interest Algi , a ;

    from Spain and elsewhere ; and a sort of burlesque Arabian Nihts Entertainmententitled

    ' Vendetta' which g is admirablillustrated , concludes the , first issue of a most y promising ,

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    230 1 he Publishers Circular March 1 , , 8 90

    Mr. Marston And Mr. Stanley At Cairo.

    MR . MARSTON AND MR . STANLEY AT CAIRO .

    lo the Editor of tlie Publishers' Circular . I Sir 7 —It is by no means an everyday

    occurrence , for a */ publisher to travel so far from his native landfor the purpose of

    encountering an author , , as I have M . t ravelled . at the invitation of my good friend , Henry

    M . Stanley . This exceptional occurrence induces me to think that a brief account of my wanderings

    may not be without interest to the readers of the Publishers' Circular . I left London on

    the 7 th instant , and I left it foggy and damp and wetbut not cold . As I travelled eastward 7

    towards , the rising sun , the weather , contrary to my •/ expectations x , became colder and colder .

    From Paris to the Italian frontier I slept the sleep of the just in a Pull man sleeping-car , therefore I cannot speak 1 of the weather during that

    night ; but , on emerging from the Mont Cenis tunnel in the morningtr » , not only * j the mountains - !

    but the valleys were deeply clad in snow , and the nearer we approached I 1 Turin the deeper A it

    became . I had decided to stop a few hours in ¦ that beautiful city to catch the Indian mail

    which I was wrongly told would leave there at , 6 o ' clock the same evening . I had arrived

    there the ma at il 12 train o'clock reall , and , did when not too late , th I found h y pass roug

    throug Turin hh till h the 3 o streets ' clock next of Turin morning where . I th trud ¦¦¦ ¦ e sno ged w

    lay — — in ^^^ huge — heaps , then being , carted — - away -- - — , w —r ^ the ~ m ^~ W W ¦ fall ~— ^— - ~ — during ~^ - " - ~— ^^— — ~— - ~^^ p ^ h the — ~— previous h ^ —^ nig m m ht having M ^^^ t reached ¦ ^^ — ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ r ^ pw

    six inches on the level . Now the sun was shining at our summer heatand I found heavy

    clothing a burden . After a , run through the Cathedral I dined at the Railway Hotel , and

    remained there aa long as they would let me ; but I was turned out at 12 o ' clock , and I had

    to to manage manaora as as well well as aa T 1 could could in in a a tireless fireless and and unlighted waiting-room till that Indian mail came in . I reached Brindisi and left it in the

    dark—what it is like _ . _ , or whether it is worth seeing , I know not . I got on board

    the P . & O . s . s . ' Rome' at 3 o ' clock a . m . There we found a lively company , Mr . and Mrs . Terry being the lions . The

    Mediterranean to me - - ^^ was being —™ - — i— cold ^^^ S that ^^ and ^ ¦ a roug puff " ' ¦ ' ¦ — h , of the wind ~ ~ chief ^ ^^^^ ^^* ip carried ^ i ^ v *^ r" event ^ piv ^^ ^^ ¦—¦— i

    my hat where it was useless to follow ; so for the remainder of the voyage I was indebted to

    the kindness of a fellow-passenger . Mr . and

    Mr. Marston And Mr. Stanley At Cairo.

    !¦¦! Mrs music music . Terry , songs sonsrs kept and and the stories stories company were were alive the tne order order , and games of of the f . liA ,

    day and , night . At Port Said we were detained several

    hours . The mails left by a small steamer at 7 o ' clock a . m . so we had to stick to our shito

    Ismailia and , telegraph for a special train to take p / ** V \ us on to - _ Cairo — _ . The - passag ^ ^ j e down the - — Canal _ _ - ~ - » % jmj *

    would be very monotonous were it not for the novelty of the thing and the queer antics of

    thebaksheesh boys on each shore . We quitted the ¦ good t ship ' Rome ' at Ismailia . There about fc

    — ^ ¦ ^^_ - — - ^ - — ^ ^ - ^ —• m — — - ™~ — — — — ™ " - ' *^ - i - ^ fifty of us left for Cairo . The scene of parting ^^ was comically affecting . Tt was quite dark .

    AH the Indian passengers came on deck to see us off . They sang * Auld Lang Syne' and

    other songs—hurrahed , shouted , and screamed . \ The young officers affected the deepest sorrow

    cried at parting i it will with never us . do ' Bear for up all , d of arlings us to ! break ' they 7

    down , —booh ! hoo ! " The darkness and the crowd of faces on the tender and on the ship ,

    lighted up by electric light , presented a very picturesque scene .

    Having crossed the lake , we had to walk about half-a-mile to the station . The scene

    there , in getting our luggage through the Custom-house , is indescribable ; the

    shouting , yelling , screaming , and fightmg of the Arab potters A . in __ the dimly -lig f—jhted darkness was

    something quite new to me . sengers k We got about sv » % ^ off at fifty 4 A 4 last in ¦ b at number bb ¦ 11 p «¦« . m h had . All written ~ our pas for

    " *¦ ^^^ ^^» H ^ h ^^ ^^ r ^ , ^^_^ p ^ . ^ ^^ .. ^^ V ^ k ^ ^^^^^^ ^ * ^ ^ ^^ , ^ m ^ m ^ r ^ . * - ^~ . v ^ ^^ rooms at Shepheard ' s Hotel . On reaching the midway station at Zukuzika telegram was

    received by one of the passengers , — Hotel full 1 UXJ . . Advise HUT 1 OV CVli all passengers UO'OOVU & VIO to UV stop OVVU till * . ¦*** to vV

    morrow ! ' Consternation reigned supreme . What could be done ? Camping-out seemed

    provided to be the for general myself expectation , I comforted . Being them as safely well

    as I could by the reflection that it was not a cold \ niht /» and AIJl it M would »» soon be morning - * -r .

    very ^^ •¦ J ^ - » ^ * V * M M . M g . £ i * I » V , « A ^_« . . V 'V-r ^ - « , * V * . Is ^ V ^ V ** * - ^ ^^ »» » — — ^ About 2 o ' clock my opposite fellow-traveller woke me out of the first doze I had just got

    into 4 many by happy seizing returns my hand of the and day ' - ( wishing it being my me all birthday round ) . . Then M there health was was shaking proposed m } r hands and j

    » drunk - » •* J » . ^~ r , ««« the »^ A 6 beverage wl »» - « . y W M tVliVJL being */* * »» one IVM bottle f- ' B" ^ ^"^ of ^ " ^ soda- I water water , which which was was all all that that , the thft company mmnanv could coma ,,

    muster , , and which was decanted by lucifermatch upon UDOn to t li ght return rfitu . rn Songs thanks t . hankn were which wTii sung ^ li . I T I did rh was ' rl in ill called the tne I :

    dark and with becoming , brevity . Thus it celebrated happened W ^ m . t \ that in 1 an Ulli ray E sixty tian -sixth railway J . CIllA birthday »» «• carriage X ^»«»^ was .

    w W— .-m « VVA AA ^ ' gyp fi ^ J I- / WJLCWAjl T - ~~ tj since ^ in *« avj profound u gone fj"UU out VUU darkness —and CbllU . in Ill — the U 11 for C 7 mids I 111 our UO t lamp U V of * . c a * had v deli *^ .- long © g- ht- - | s |

    never <« fui v > vyi company . saw ou il before ILSOIVSJL of ladies U X 1 met 111 CU and them I / 11 C 1 gentlemen II V on / ll the U ** V boat « v whom ««« j , -and — I

    again whom . , in At all Cairo probability we all , parted I shall every never <> » ee ne

    , looking This after is a himself long di and gression his belong on my ings road . to and

    Stanley . His courier met me at the station carried VM » A * 1 UU me MMM . WJ off V ^ JlJ . to 1 / V his 1 J . 1 O hotel J 1 MI / C 7 A . . Needless 11 CCUtOOO to " - ' say — rf ,

    met » the " « vv , . great He JtJLV * man JL rec VVV eived 1 was TOU me Ali abed . \? with n . iUll Next JlJIJiVfW most * ' morning »»»» affectionate . »^ 'V' ~— have we

    lived warmth together , which ever did since my heart . I may good tell . We you thaty - _«__ - _______ .. « . . - — rrrr ^^ ^

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1890, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031890/page/12/