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was a very natural one. The fact was that I had been com 

 pletely under the impression made upon me by the ideal 

 ized portrait of the Khedive at the technical school, and 

 the thought had never entered my mind that the real 

 Khedive might be physically far inferior to the ideal. 

 But no harm was done ; for, after dinner, he came to me 

 again and renewed the conversation with especial cor 

 diality. I also had a long talk with the real Riaz, and 

 found him intelligent and broad-minded. One thing he 

 said amused me. It was that he especially liked to wel 

 come Americans, because they were not seeking to exploit 

 the country. 



In Cairo and Alexandria I enjoyed meeting the Ameri 

 can and English missionaries, among them my old Yale 

 friend Dr. Henry Jessup, who has for so many years 

 rendered admirable services at Beyrout; but the most 

 noteworthy thing was a lecture which I heard from Dr. 

 Grant, an eminent Presbyterian physician connected with 

 the mission. It was on the subject of the Egyptian Trini 

 ties. The doctor explained them, as well as the Trimurtis 

 of India, by expressing his belief that when the Almighty 

 came down in the cool of the day to refresh himself by 

 walking and talking with Adam in the garden of Eden, 

 he revealed to the man he had made some of the great 

 mysteries of the divine existence, and that these had 

 &quot;leaked out&quot; to men who took them into other countries, 

 and there taught them! 



I also found at Cairo another especially interesting 

 man of a very different sort, an Armenian, Mr. Nimr; 

 and, on visiting him, was amazed to find in his library 

 a large collection of English and French books, scientific 

 and literary among them the &quot;New York Scientific 

 Monthly containing my own articles, which he had done 

 me the honor to read. I found that he had been, at an 

 earlier period, a professor at the college established by 

 the American Protestant missionaries at Beyrout; but 

 that he and several others who had come to adopt the 

 Darwinian hypothesis were on that account turned out 



