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able. His reply was : ' I must admit that I had not 

 thought of this ; it was an act of sudden inspiration ; 

 you know that I am not inclined to follow ordinary 

 rules, and that I do not like to do as other people do.' 



" While I am conversing with the Viceroy, Solimon 

 Pasha comes to see him on military matters, and I 

 drove off in my state coach drawn by four white horses. 

 The negro coachman drives very well, and goes at full 

 trot or in a gallop through the narrow streets and 

 bazaars of Cairo, though I must add that the footmen 

 distribute, in spite of my admonitions, blows with their 

 staves right and left to keep off the persons on foot, 

 who stand close up against the walls and shops. These 

 poor fellows do not complain, but on the contrary 

 exclaim in a tone of admiration, c Ah; there is a 

 grand seigneur going by. Mashallah (Glory be to 

 God) ' ! 



" Such is the East, such it has been from all time, 

 and so it is described to us in the Bible, where we 

 read that after Joshua had massacred the inhabitants 

 of Jericho, even to the women and the asses, i so was 

 the might of the Lord made manifest.' 



" In the course of the day I go to see the three sons 

 of Ibrahim Pasha, the eldest of whom, Achmet Pasha, 

 is a well-educated man who had distinguished himself 

 at the French Polytechnic School. He is very well 

 qualified, like his father, to administer his vast pro- 

 perties, and he argues very well in French upon all 

 topics. He had been to see the Viceroy on the morn- 



