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' To Professor Richard Owen. 



In grateful remembrance of happy hours spent 

 with him at Cairo. — Carl Haag. 1874.' 



The following notes are taken from letters to 

 his sister, written from Egypt : — 



' February 22. — At the breakfast table I was 

 greeted by Colonel Gordon (Chinese Gordon), on 

 his way to the scene of Sir S. Baker's adven- 

 tures. . . . Captain Stuart kindly agreed to take 

 us through the canal to Timsah, but we were to 

 go on board that night. 



* 2yd. — We were nattering ourselves that we 

 should have got into Lake Timsah in time for the 

 train to Cairo ; or at least in time for M. de Lesseps' 

 dinner, to which he had telegraphed an invitation 

 to Suez. But, alas ! at 3 p.m. we stopped. The 

 captain pointed to a distant semaphore, in which 

 two balls indicated a "stop" till a vessel in the 

 canal had emerged into the Bitter Lakes. The 

 " Simla" was in charge of a Suez Canal Conv 

 pany's pilot and nothing could be done. At 4.30 

 we saw the masts of the opposing vessel. At 

 5.15 she emerged from the canal, a large French 

 screw with the mail-bags. We then moved on 

 nearer to the entry and stopped for the night.' 



Owen returned home by Brindisi, Bologna, 

 Turin, and arrived in London on April 3. On 

 May 12 he writes to Dr. Pearson Langshaw : — 



' Last Friday I dined with the Junior Contem- 



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