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EGYPTIAN CHRISTIANS.
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and a long calendar of saints. Outside the door
of the church was a school; a parcel of dirty boys
sitting on the ground, under the shade of some
palm-trees, with a more dirty blind man for their
master, who seemed to be at the work of teaching
because he was not fit for any thing else. I turned
away with a feeling of melancholy, and almost
blushed in the presence of the haughty Mussul-
mans, to recognise the ignorant and degraded ob-
jects around me as my Christian brethren,
159
and a long calendar of saints. Outside the door
of the church was a school; a parcel of dirty boys
sitting on the ground, under the shade of some
palm-trees, with a more dirty blind man for their
master, who seemed to be at the work of teaching
because he was not fit for any thing else. I turned
away with a feeling of melancholy, and almost
blushed in the presence of the haughty Mussul-
mans, to recognise the ignorant and degraded ob-
jects around me as my Christian brethren,