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THE ·HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

FELLAH-

HILE Nahas quarrels with Farouk, and Ma-, homed Mahmud prepares an election, and the cafés of Cairo and Alex- andria buzz with talk of politics, the fellah goes on, from dawn to dusk, day in day out, year after year, working in the fields.

He and his ancestors have done the same for thousands of years.

His way of life hardly, differs to-day from that of his forc- fathers, na you may see them pictured on the walls of tombs built three thousand years be- fore Christ. His standard of liv- ing is much the same.

Working the richest land in all the world, be has-and has always had-Hitike gain of it.

Out of the wealth of Egypt and the labour of the feilah Cheops bullt his Pyramid and Rameses his great temples: Imperial drew tribute.

Rome

Mameluken and Turks, and, later, European Ananciers, Col Kreat wealth, To-day, in spite of the troubles of world depression, Cairo and Alexandria are rich titles,

I

Tall comes from the land. But the prople whose patient, unremit- ting labour draw the wealth from the land are poor lo-day as in the days of the Pharaohs, in the days of the Mamelukes, in the days of the Turks,

They are indeed fed. On the food they have, an Engllatıman in England

starve. The would climate helps; and the long habit of centuries,

But beyond a bare minimum of food they have little or nothing.

Seen from road or rall or river, the little mud brick village among its palm trees tooks pleturesque.

he tills world's richest land,

yet his home is a mud hut By W. N. EWER

They are as poor as in the days of the Pharaons.

Bul the reality, scen at close

quarters: ---

The home" of the poorer Tellal or of the pald inbourer is a single room. Four walls of sun-

dried mud brick and a roof covered with malze stalks to break the sun's heat. A hole in the roof for light and ventilation.

Inside, a mud floor and a mud mastaba—a sort of platform or dals. eighteen inches or 50 above the door, which is bed and couch and, indeed, all the furniture.

On the floor a few pota. On the mastaba a roll of bedding, and, in the corner. the painted chest which the bride brought when she was married, and in which her trinkets and other little Family treasures are kept.

That is all. Thal, except for their clothes and their tools. Is the sum total of their possessions,

Unless they own a donkey or a buffalo: in which case the animals

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have another room, which has no mastaba, but which is otherwise hardly distinguishable from that of the humans.

These are the poorest. Others are a little better off, Some by auch standards almost prosperous, But everywhere a terrible poverty.

And everywhere disease. Egypt to-day, as in Moses' day, has her plagues. And as all through her history. the country is 10-day occupied by invading armies who batten on the fellaheen,

T

or

or

E felinh's greatest enemies to-day are not Romans

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From the hookworm, lying in countless millions in the soil he gets ankylostomu: from a tiny

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snall living in the stagnant water which irrigates his folds, hio gets bilharzia.

The statistics sound incredible. Soventy or elglity per cont. of the rumi population, they say, have one or other; most of them both.

They do not, on the whole, kill, but they lower the energy, weaken the muscles, produce lassitude and dobility. And this in a people who to live must work all the daylight hours.

Ankylostoma, bilharzia.

Third

of the plagues of modern Egypt is trachoma. the terrible infectious "Egyptian ophthalmia," which Napoleon's troops brought back to France, but which has been nearly stamped out in Europe.

N

INETY per cent, of the population, they any,

are or have been. in- fected, have defective vision as t reault. The number of blind and one-eyed is appalling.

"Greatest care and greatest cleanliness are essential," said an English ophthalmic surgeon, dis- cussing ways of checking tra- choma.

For

instance, overy member of a family should have his own towel."

Admirable advice. But, as mast Egyptian families have no towel at all not very helpful.

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At bottom all three are'diseases poverty. Trachoma will bo endemic while families live and sleep herded together without the rudiments of sanitation.

bilharzia Ankylostoma

and could both be checked by sanita- tlon, and by the use of shoes in the fields and waders in the water. But resistance ΟΙ Jong habit apart-how many follahin Can afford shoes or waders?

So, in spite of the tireless work of an inadequate medical service, the plagues go on. Bilharzia has even grown worse: because modern "permanent irrigation" helps the sunil,

There are even some who main- tain that the felinh was better off before the dams were bullt, when the Nile flooded his fields in winter and receded in spring. He now grows two crops a year: but the snall (or the bug" which lives first in the snall and then in his veins) is sapping bis vitality.

But, as I sny, it is his poverty which is the chief root of the evil. The wealth of Egypt is produced Irom the soll by the fellah, But 16 is drained from him.

If he is tenant under a landlord, the landlord takes heavy toll; and gives little or nothing in return. If the fellah owns his own land he is heavily over-laxed, while the wealthy folk of the towns escape too lightly: though this, be it said to is credll the Wald Govern- ment had been planning somewhat to modify.

ASTLY, there are the hundred and one ways in which the middle- men of various kinds take toll of the produce of the land on Its wILY from the peasant to the consumer. Since perennial irrigation, started a century ago by Mahomed Ali, made possible the growing of cotton and of sugar cane.

ast for- tunes have been made. The wealth of the country has enormously In- creased. But little enough share in the Increase has come to the fellah. He stays poor in the midst of ft while Cairo and Alexandria abound in luxury.

The Nile, they say is Egypt, and Egypt Is the Nile. But for the water of the great river, that long green ribbon a thousand miles long. sometimes only a mile or two broad

that runs from the Sudan to the Mediterranean, would be barren desert like the land on each side.

But if Egypt is the Nile, Egypt is also the fellah. It is his labour which has used the Nile water to, make the country rich, though he stays poor himself.

Опо day, perhaps, the too patient fellah will assert himself, and a change will come. But it is not yet.

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