Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1901 — E[?]Y. T AS A WINTER RESORT. [ARTICLE]

E[?]Y. T AS A WINTER RESORT.

Africa More Interesting to ltrttlsh Tourlutf* Than Southern I'urope. Every indication 13 forthcoming that the approaching seas.m in Cairo and on the Ni e will h * a prosperous one, and visitors will prebib'.y exceed the record of last y:'ar, when so many English people deserted the Riviera for Egypt. All tha hotels promise to be full, and the newer h a’th resorts will not lack for patr. liage. There now include Heloitan, within half an hour's lailvvay ride of Cairo, which has sulphur baths, recommended for rheumatism. and several 11 st-class hotels and pensions, whi e furnished villas may be hired. Assouan, which is described as the driest accessible health resort in tiie world, has two large hotels and an English church, and ;ds growing in popular.ty year by year, rivaling Luxor. so well known to invalids and others who dare not face an English winter. At Luxor, also, hotel extensions have t ken place, and no modern improvements are .wanting. Assousan is the starting pr> nt for the further voyage to Wady Holfa. Sportsmen in sear: h of big game are making up parties for shooting buffalo, giraffe, rhinoceroue, hippotamus and elephant, in the district lying between Khartoum and Fas hod a. The regu'ations are now somewhat more stringent, owing lo the increase in the number of guns Dahabrahs. steam and sailing, and modernized—for, the type of craft goes hack to thlq days of the Pharoahs—provide the most luxurious and necessarily costly means of conveyance, and the fleet avai'able is always in keen demand for families making application a long time in advance. —London Telegraph.