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once refractory, but Bob boldly gave the order to the 

 sailors to flog him, and flogged he was by his own 

 crew, and ate the bread of humility. 



My excuses for speaking at such length about 

 countries since so familiarly known are that it will 

 help to give some idea of how they struck a tourist- 

 traveller in the time of Mehemet AH, upwards of sixty 

 years ago, and because this little excursion formed 

 one of the principal landmarks of my life. That 

 chance meeting with Arnaud Bey had important after- 

 results to me by suggesting scientific objects to my 

 future wanderings. I often thought of writing to him 

 in order to bring myself to his remembrance, and to 

 sincerely thank him, but no sufficiently appropriate 

 occasion arose, and it is now too late. 



In the winter 1900-1901 I visited Egypt again, and, 

 calling at the Geographical Society there, learnt how 

 important and honoured a place Arnaud Bey had 

 occupied in its history. He had died not many 

 months previously, and I looked at his portrait with 

 regret and kindly remembrance. Being asked to 

 communicate a brief memoir to the Society at its 

 approaching meeting, I selected for my subject a com- 

 parison between Egypt then and fifty years previously. 

 I took that opportunity to express my heartfelt 

 gratitude to Arnaud, which posthumous tribute was 

 all I had the power to pay. 



During this same visit to Egypt I spent one of 

 the most interesting weeks of my life at Professor 

 Petrie's camp. It was by pure chance that when 

 booking my place to Egypt, in the London office, I 

 found Professor Petrie on some similar errand. He 

 then and there invited me and my niece to join him 

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