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Description of Alexandria Hotels Houses Streets Frank Shops Cafés Equipages Arrangements for the Journey to Suez Pompey's Pillar Turkish and Arab Burial-grounds Preparations for the Journey to Cairo Embarkation on the Canal Bad accommodation in the Boat Banks of the Canal Varieties of Costume in Egypt Collision during the night Atfee Its wretched appearance The Pasha Exchange of Boats Disappointment at the Nile Scarcity of Trees Manners of the Boatmen Aspect of the Villages The Marquess of Waterford The Mughreebee Magician First sight of the Pyramids Arrival at Boulak, the Port of Cairo.
Our club there consisted of six members when at its zenith, and occasionally two in times of dearth. We had three miles to bicycle out, and part of the way over a fearful stone road through nauseous burial-grounds, but once there, a round or two in cool, fresh air, amongst the hills and pines, overlooking both sea and river, amply repaid one for the toilsome journey.
Sometimes the ladies walk to the burial-grounds, and wander about for hours among the graves. When they are at home they employ themselves in making pillau and sherbet. Pillau is made of rice and butter; sherbet is made of juice mixed with water. The ladies have a sitting-room to themselves. One side of it is all lattice-work, and this makes it cool.
A violent epidemic of influenza had just spread through the settlements, and hardly a person was unaffected. Everyone was ill and weak. It was not without a certain appropriateness that the first distinctively episcopal acts performed upon our soil were those of the consecration of burial-grounds at Paihia and at Kororareka.
Let us have one look at poor Benjamin's grave, said I. His bones lie where his body was laid so long ago, and where the stone says they lie, which is more than can be said of most of the tenants of this and several other burial-grounds. Many years ago, when this disgraceful process was going on under my eyes, I addressed an indignant remonstrance to a leading journal.
From the fact that some towns which are close to cromlechs, ancient burial-grounds, woods, or moors are full of idiots, leads me to suppose that vampires often frequent the same spots as barrowvians, vagrarians and other types of elementals.
The two last-given illustrations may possibly belong to the category of mural tablets rather than that of gravestones, being fixed apparently by original design, and not by afterthought, as in our "converted" burial-grounds, against the outer walls of the church.
Yoho, by churches dropped down by themselves in quiet nooks, with rustic burial-grounds about them, where the graves are green, and daisies sleep for it is evening on the bosoms of the dead.
With so much energy was this work conducted, that that very night a body of workmen were sent, with torches and suitable tools, to open an access to the subterranean burial-grounds extending under a portion of Paris, that a speedy disposal might be made of the anticipated multitude of dead bodies.
Said he: "In parts of Warwickshire and some of the adjacent counties, more especially in the churchyards of the larger towns, the frightful fashion of black tombstones is almost universal black tombstones, tall and slim, and lettered in gold, looking for all the world like upright coffin-lids.... Some village burial-grounds here have, however, escaped this treatment, and within the circuit of a few miles round Warwick itself are many small hamlet churches each surrounded by its lowly flock of green graves and grey headstones.... some half sunk into the churchyard mould, many carved out into cherubins with their trumpeter's cheeks and expanded wings, or with the awful emblems, death's heads and bones and hour-glasses."
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