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CO LECTURE OX EGYPT.
Before parting with our newly married Princes, I
must not omit to mention that I had the honour of
' assisting' at several of these royal ceremonies, which
are always prolonged for the tantalizing period of a
week. In England on the occasion of a wedding, you
are expected to make wedding presents to the bride and
bridegroom, but in Egypt the custom is reversed, and
it is the friends who receive presents.
Although for many years past it has been my duty
to discuss Egyptian topics with officials of all classes,
native and European, I have never heard one single word
of complaint against the present Khedive, and this, I
assure you, is a remarkable and significant circumstance
in Egypt. Owing, probably, to the retired position he
has generally occupied and the unobtrusive life he has
lived, his real intelligence and character have not until
quite recently been fully appreciated. His information
and opinions, however, are evidently the result of care-
ful study and thought, and believing him to be truly
patriotic, I am sure he will loyally and successfully co-
operate with the European officials in inaugurating such
an improved administration as will make Egypt a happy
and prosperous country.
The jiibie. And now, in conclusion, I will ask your attention
to the most interesting question connected with Egyp-
tian history. -No country in the world has been so mi-
nutely described in the Bible, and certainly no other
country preserves to the present day so many evidences
of the accuracy of that description as Egypt.
Of Egypt when the Pyramids of Ghizeh were con-
Before parting with our newly married Princes, I
must not omit to mention that I had the honour of
' assisting' at several of these royal ceremonies, which
are always prolonged for the tantalizing period of a
week. In England on the occasion of a wedding, you
are expected to make wedding presents to the bride and
bridegroom, but in Egypt the custom is reversed, and
it is the friends who receive presents.
Although for many years past it has been my duty
to discuss Egyptian topics with officials of all classes,
native and European, I have never heard one single word
of complaint against the present Khedive, and this, I
assure you, is a remarkable and significant circumstance
in Egypt. Owing, probably, to the retired position he
has generally occupied and the unobtrusive life he has
lived, his real intelligence and character have not until
quite recently been fully appreciated. His information
and opinions, however, are evidently the result of care-
ful study and thought, and believing him to be truly
patriotic, I am sure he will loyally and successfully co-
operate with the European officials in inaugurating such
an improved administration as will make Egypt a happy
and prosperous country.
The jiibie. And now, in conclusion, I will ask your attention
to the most interesting question connected with Egyp-
tian history. -No country in the world has been so mi-
nutely described in the Bible, and certainly no other
country preserves to the present day so many evidences
of the accuracy of that description as Egypt.
Of Egypt when the Pyramids of Ghizeh were con-