The Portland daily press., 1901-02-28
Many Places Of Interest Which lie
Visited.
His Impressions of Mod
ern Egypt.
Beneflcent Effects Of English
Administration.

General Joshua l.. Chamterlain, sur.
veyor Of the port OF Portland, arrived
home yesterday after a trip Of nearly four
months spent In Egypt. he went in hoIe
Of improving his health and was succes.
full, hiJ physical condition hAv.' g been
greatly bettered. On the IL ose of his trip
he was accompanied by party of frisnes.
81 started for home from Alaxand r
the seventh day of this IN u tn; tor ched
at Naples and have been at sea very much
all OF ths time sinos,' said Gen. ham
berlain. 81 reached New York Monday
forenoon but left there yesterday and ar
rived here this afternoon on the steamer
Horstlo Hall. So you see that just now
L am doing my best to shake my sea legs
/ have had a great experience and have
seen many thirgs OF interest during my
journeys.
''After we had arrived at Genoa we
went through all OF the cities of Italy.
This was while there was a tremendous
cold streak OF weather and while the dis-
agreeable rains were raging The result
was that my condition was no little
affected. My wounds were troubled by
this weather and for several days l was
laid up in hotel critically Ill. My
friends did not want me to be taken to
hospital and so was obliged to remain
in a hotel. Fortunately l became Inn
proved and then left on an old East At
rican liner and went to Ishmalia and
then to Cairo where we struck fine
climate. went all over Egypt up TO tn e
fFrr,xf xfofl.
excellent chance to study and observe.
My Impressions that L had had OF that
country were overborne, and l expert
enced the most intereting study that
have ever had / witnessed ths Oldest
nation in the world being born again.
A part of the time there was colder
weather and more rains than had been
known at least for this generation, But
1 rapidly recovered from my illness after
had once got into Egypt. i carefully
studied the result OF English occupancy
in Egypt ana could tell you a great deal
about IL. think tbht this occupancy In
tiUence Of I'm. land is the salvation OF
Egypt. II England were to withdraw
from that country thsre would be an
arohy politically in Egypt asd the new
springing property would be put an end
to right off English influence predomi-
mates In all measures except In mere ad-
ened out ths financial entanglements
from a condition OF practical bankruptcy
and has won for Egypt such financial
standing that all OF her peculiarly obll-
cations are at q premium and there Is q
surplus.
Not only are all OF her obligations at q
premium buS her Incomes are very large
Iy In excess of her expenditures. l think
that this ia due,almost entirely to English
management, Every department of in
dustry is being improved to wonderful
degree. The great dams on the Nile ara
the means of reclaiming the country
from a condition of sterility ana useless
ness so that hundreds or thousands OF
acres Of land are made use of. That
bridge at Assouas, at the first cataract of
the Nile, is the most wonderful piece OF
engineering in the wolrd. The influ-
encs of that one dam alone Will be TO
double the area of productive lands es.
pecialIy In enlarging the area of cotton
and sugar raising. Already These two
products are being exported over to
America, their output being so great
Not only will this inure to the advant age
of the people but also to the revenues of
the government. England has a oontroll-
ing influence in the Suez canal. Whoever
controls tie Great Lakes, which are the
sources of the Nile, Will control the river
upon which this prosperity Of Egypt abso-
lutely depsnds. England could not afford
to have another power get possession OF
that tiAtrican country.
1.-The matter OF education shows a sur
prisiDg Improvement, indeed, almost a
revolution in the matter of methods and
instruction. / visited all OF the institu-
tions from the great university at Cairo,
where thsre are now thousands and
thousands OF students from all over the
Mohammedan world, ana which is the
oldest Institution in the world. through
the government schools and the very re-
markable schools of the American mis-
sion, down to the primary schools Their
methods of instruction really give us
something TO learn as to making knowl-
edge available and greater,
"All persons whom i met spoke very
highly of America and Americans, and
received much attention which gave me
a tine opportunity to learn. The officers OF
the government gave me every facility
for studying up ali subjscts This resur-
rection OF an ancient people Is the most
interesting thing that l have every ex-
perienced.
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