Luxor, Upper Egypt, March 21.—From Assuan to Luxor is 126 miles and Col. Roosevelt and his family covered this distance today in the regular express, arriving here early in the afternoon. From Luxor to Cairo is 454 miles, and the ex-President will reach the Egyptian capital Thursday. There a state carriage will be in waiting, so that Col. Roosevelt may visit the Khedive at the Abdin palace. The Khedive will return the call in person. This will be the first occasion on which the ruler has so honored a private citizen.
On arrival at Luxor today the distinguished Americans were greeted by a great number of fellow citizens, many American tourists having waited at this place to see the former President. Col. Roosevelt held a reception this afternoon at the Winter Place hotel.
This evening a visit was made to the temples of Karnaku. The ruins of these buildings are the most wonderful of any in Egypt. In the hills behind the temples are the tombs of the Kings and Queens, and these the party saw in the moonlight.
Besides an exchange of visits between him and the Khedive, Col. Roosevelt will call on Prince Ahmed Fouad, the Khedive’s uncle and the rector of the University of Egypt. The Sirdar, Major Gen. Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, will pay his respects to the ex-President, and in the meantime Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel, accompanied by Mrs. Iddings, wife of the American consul general at Cairo, will go to the palace of Kubba to pay a visit to the Khedivan. From there they will drive to the Mena House, where apartments have been reserved for the members of Col. Roosevelt’s party. Most of Friday will be taken up with a trip to the tombs of Sakkara, where Mr. Quibell, a noted Egyptologist, will meet them and describe the points of most historic note.
The party will keep on to the Nile and will return to Cairo by steam launch, visiting the Zoological gardens on the way and dining with Sir Eldon Gorst, the British agent and consul general in Egypt.
Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME, March 22, 1910