Foot-prints of Travel; Or, Journeyings in Many Lands

Chapter 9

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Native City of Jeypore.--Poppy and Opium-raising.-- Bombay.--The Parsees.--The Towers of Silence.--Historical View of India.--Voyage to the Red Sea.--Cairo, Capital of Egypt.--Local Scenes.--The Turkish Bazaars.--Pyramids of Gizeh.--The Sphinx.--The Desert.--Egypt, Past and Present.--Voyage to Malta.--City of Valetta.--Church of St. John.--Gibraltar.--View from the Signal Station.--English Outposts. 122