This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...moonlight, moored far from all human dwellings--" How sweet are the quiet places of the world!" I wonder when Europe will drop the absurd delusion about Christians being persecuted by Muslims. It is absolutely the other way, --here at all events. The Christians know that they will always get backed by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...moonlight, moored far from all human dwellings--" How sweet are the quiet places of the world!" I wonder when Europe will drop the absurd delusion about Christians being persecuted by Muslims. It is absolutely the other way, --here at all events. The Christians know that they will always get backed by some Consul or other, and it is the Muslims who go to the wall invariably. The old brute of a Patriarch is resolved to continue his persecution of the converts, and I was urged the other day by a Sheykh to go to the "Sheykh-ul-Islam " himself and ask him to demand equal rights for all religions, which is the law, on behalf of these Coptic protestants. Everywhere the Ulema have done what they could to protect them, even at Sioot, where the Americans had caused them a good deal of annoyance on a former occasion. No one in Europe can conceive how much the Copts have the upper hand in the villages. They are backed by the government, and they know that the Europeans will always side with them. I have a strong suspicion that it is much the same in Turkey, if one knew the truth. BOULAK, 1%th September, 1867. You may imagine how glad I was to receive your last letter, from which I conclude that M-is coming here, though you say nothing about yourself. If M really comes, let me know by what boat, that I may send Omar to meet him, for I well remember the horrid desolation of being landed in Alexandria without any help whatever. My notion is for M to see all Cairo well, first, and then to start for four or five months, so as to go to Wady Halfeh (the second cataract) and not come down too soon for me. Omar is crazy with delight at the idea of M 's arrival, and Reis Mohammed keeps planning what men to take who can make "fantasia," and not ask too much...
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