One of our passengers, Mr.Moses S.Beach, of the New York Sun, inquired of the consul-general what it would cost to send these people to their home in Maine by the way of Liverpool, and he said fifteen hundred dollars in gold would do it.

Mr.Beach gave his check for the money and so the troubles of the Jaffa colonists were at an end .-- [It was an unselfish act of benevolence; it was done without any ostentation, and has never been mentioned in any newspaper, I think.

Therefore it is refreshing to learn now, several months after the above narrative was written, that another man received all the credit of this rescue of the colonists.
Such is life.] Alexandria was too much like a European city to be novel, and we soon tired of it.

We took the cars and came up here to ancient Cairo, which is an Oriental city and of the completest pattern.

There is little about it to disabuse one's mind of the error if he should take it into his head that he was in the heart of Arabia.