PREFACE. 



This book is the outcome of repeated visits to Egypt and of 

 prolonged studies, in which I have been ably assisted by eminent 

 experts, possessing a wide knowledge of the country and of the 

 various questions at issue. Having been present as delegate of the 

 German Colonial Economic Committee at the International Cotton 

 Conferences held in Egypt during the autumn of 1912, I had an 

 excellent opportunity of observing, in its latest phases, the develop- 

 ment of the cotton question in the country of the Nile, as far as the 

 Sudan, and to collect impressions, which I hope may be useful in 

 various directions. 



MORITZ SCHANZ. 



Chemnitz, Christmas, 1912. 



