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THE TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
An unpretending little volume was published in
1869 under the title of Itineraire des Invites de
S. A. le Khedive aux Fetes de VInauguration du
Canal de Suez. The very title of the work is a
record of the great historical event which gath-
ered together many distinguished personages in
Egypt.
The ItinSraire met with all the favor it de-
served, and a first edition having been rapidly
exhausted, a second one, with some slight altera-
tions, appeared in 1872.
It soon became evident, however, that as the
majority of regular tourists on the Nile belong
to the two great English-speaking nations, an
English edition of the Itineraire would not prove
otherwise than acceptable. At Mariette-Bey's
request, being myself no stranger to Egypt, I
readily undertook the required translation into
English—a somewhat difficult task, in which I
on
An unpretending little volume was published in
1869 under the title of Itineraire des Invites de
S. A. le Khedive aux Fetes de VInauguration du
Canal de Suez. The very title of the work is a
record of the great historical event which gath-
ered together many distinguished personages in
Egypt.
The ItinSraire met with all the favor it de-
served, and a first edition having been rapidly
exhausted, a second one, with some slight altera-
tions, appeared in 1872.
It soon became evident, however, that as the
majority of regular tourists on the Nile belong
to the two great English-speaking nations, an
English edition of the Itineraire would not prove
otherwise than acceptable. At Mariette-Bey's
request, being myself no stranger to Egypt, I
readily undertook the required translation into
English—a somewhat difficult task, in which I
on