swiss-controlled

Updated: May 29, 2025

And right through the middle of it hooting and kicking up the Nile passed a Cook's steamer all ready to take tourists to Assuan. From the Nubian's point of view she, and not himself, was the wonder as great as the Swiss-controlled, Swiss-staffed hotel behind her, whose lift, maybe, the Nubian helped to run.

Rudyard Kipling - Letters of Travel (1892-1913)