Excerpt from Bygone Days in India
At Alexandria there was an hotel under Italian manage ment, but Burt could not stay there more than a few hours without fear of losing the steamer at Suez. He engaged an Arab, who consented, for the sum of 15 dollars, to serve him and another man during the journey across the desert. At Alexandria Burt was able to procure at exorbitant prices the necessaries for the journey crockery, cutlery, food, drink and ...
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