Year: 1870

villages, where men and women work 10 hours
day two meals of boiled green's had spent three
months in Spain. the most wretched country OF
Europe and counted one afternoon in the main street
'Of Madrid half mile long, ahundred and forty-seven
horrible beggars. But in Egypt it is obtrusive and
oppressive, and at last intolerable. When
had taken one walk through certain quarters OF
Cairo, and had passed through Bonlak and Ghizeh
on my way to the Pyramids, l had seen than
enough. Egypt is country which has past and a
future. The Egypt of to-day is filled with horrors
She has had great rulers Mehemet All was
Said Pacha who yielded the isthmus to Lesseps,
perhaps another. IsmaIl- Pacha is known for man
of wide views, imbued with European ideas mer-
cfu to his people as circumstances allow him to be-
But he cannot make Egypt new in day, and sup
pose he dare not atten pit what we should call
social reform Till you have seen Egypt, you have
conception of what poy erty is the poverty which
weighs not on individuals as consequence of idle
ness or misfortune want of work, but the poverty
which is the heritage of whole race Of patient,
dustrous men and women. About's book on the
Felah, means to give the hopeful side-is a book
written they say, at the Viceroys request, and paid
for with the Viceroy's money. Well, About has not
told the half nor the tenth of what any may
in Egypt in week, yet what he reveals uncon-
scousy is the trues part of his story and shows you
at every step that unhappy Egypt which it was his
business half to conceal and half to gild with the
bright hopes that the Kh6dive has for his country in
the future man may well try to believe what SO
energetic ruler believes, but with all the faith in
the world you will shrink from the sight OF the
actual Egypt / would give something to forget
what saw-to forget for instance the swarms Of
children suffering, as almost every one does, from an
ophthalmia that makes them the prey of clustering
and fostering flies.


Among so many guests il would be strange if there
were not some mpostors am sorry to have to say
that there was one who used the name of THE TRIB-
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+. Heppel Hall applied to me in London for the post
of correspondent at Suez, and refused. After
being refused, he went to Paris, and made his
way into the Office of the agent of the Kh6dive.
Narabouy Bey. He stated to him that he the
representative of THE TRIBUNE, but had unluckily
lost his invitation and asked for another. The Bey,
who is the most courteous of men, told Mr.. Heppel
Hall that nothing would be easier if he would take
the trouble to identify himself through his Consul
in any way authenticate his application. As that
precisely what Mr.. Heppel Hall could not do, his at
tempt failed. He may like to know that heard this
account from the gentleman who happened TO he in
the Office of the Bey at the time, and who, seeing
that Mr. Heppel Hall could not make himself under
stood in French, good natured enough to act as
interpreter between him and the Bey. This gentle
man is an officer in the British army, and we were
fellow passengers on the Guienne from Marseilles
to Alexandria that the story inevitably came out.
Afterward Mr. Heppel Hall turned up in Egypt, pro-
Tossing to be the correspondent of The NelC- York
1imes-a post for which Ihe told me in Lon
don he had unsuccessfully applied. l hear that he
presented himself to Mr.. Hale, American Consul in
Alexandria claiming, know not how many, favors
in that character, but Mr.. Hale had already seen
representative of that paper with the credentials Of
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