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A ‘LONG STOP 
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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. 
‘ 22,rd . — We were flattering 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 Com- 
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 1 dined with the Junior Contem- 
