HIS PARTING WORDS OF ADVICE. 57 



an animal that he considered most dangerous ; and added 

 that, if we found ourselves in any difficulty with the 

 natives, we were to communicate with him at once. 



Go where we may, we can never expect to meet 

 again a man who will take such a sincere interest in our 

 welfare as Munsinger Pasha has done ; his frank open 

 manner has quite won our hearts, and one cannot be 

 thrown in his society for even the short time we have 

 been, without feeling confident that he is thoroughly in 

 earnest in the difficult task he has in hand in his official 

 life, and wishing, for the future welfare of Egypt, that the 

 Khedive could number many such men amongst his high 

 officers of State. 1 



1 Munsinger Pasha has been recently waylaid and killed when on a p 

 tour of inspection. 



