Dairy of a Journey to the East, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from Dairy of a Journey to the East, Vol. 2: In the Autumn of 1854 Then passing some of those tombs, which I have before described, we passed little more than a mile from the present gate, a Roman millarium lying prostrate near the road. Here meeting a fellah woman with a water jar poised on her head, we asked her the way, when instead of answering our question, she threw up her hands, and exclaimed, "Mashallah, you must not ask me, don't you see I'm only a woman, " than which hardly any thing could be more oriental. Another of her sex, however, whom we met shortly afterwards, and of whom we made the same enquiry, had a juster idea of her sex's dignity, and not only gave us the information we sought, but let down her pitcher into a neighbouring well, and gave us water to drink. If these two women may be taken as types of the past and the present, there is hope in store for the future of this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.