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Author: Books Group
Page Count: 232 pages
Published Date: 31 Dec 2011
Publisher: General Books
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781234889289
File size: 22 Mb
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1882. Excerpt: ... Cairo and Alexandria. A MISSIONARY'S JOURNAL. Cairo, Tuesday, July 4///. I AM going this morning to see one of the French officials here. His antechamber is full of trunks. I must try to reassure him. "I have received," he says, "letter upon letter from Alexandria, blaming my temerity in remaining here. But I really cannot yield to these unreasonable fears, which make the natives think very little of us." I asked him how it was that all the religious, Lazarists, Brothers of Christian Doctrine, Sisters of Charity, the Nuns of Sion, of the Mother of God, had fled ?" Do you not know," he replied, "that an influence, nay, a pressure, has been employed to induce them to go? Yes," he. added indignantly, "there exists an agency of terror in Alexandria! All the consuls are connected with this agency. This is certainly not loyal policy, neither is it French. How terrible is the responsibility of those who try and urge on the Government to persecute us, and this without a thought of how many families are ruined by the alarm they excite!" In the afternoon I went to see Mr. Ramon, the proprietor of the Royal Hotel. In these evil times, a visit from a Frenchman gladdens his heart. He was talking to a young man, who withdrew as I entered. "That," he said, "is an English clerk, who dines here. He tells me that he, together with the fortysix other Englishmen who are in Cairo, has just received an imperative order to leave immediately." I Veducsday, July 5 ///. This morning one of our faithful Lyonnese, Mr. Rambaud, Secretary for the Canals of the Nile at the Ministry of Public Works, came to tell me that his chief, Mr. Dupar, an Englishman, left last night, without even apprizing the Minister. "As for me," he added, "knowing as I do Mr. Dupar's calm and deliberate character, his departure shows me ...

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