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Excerpt from The Khedive's Egypt: Or, the Old House of Bondage Under New Masters When the second dawn of a new civilisation seems break ing over that portion of the East which hailed the first, long ere Greece or Rome had emerged from the double darkness of Night, and of Night's daughter, Ignorance. In this belief he entrusts his book to the tender mercies of the public, and the tougher charities of the critics admitting in advance, most cheerfully, that it is not one of those books no gentleman's library should be without, against which Charles Lamb so solemnly cautioned his young friend. All the facts and figures this book con tains have been collected on the spot, and verified, as far as possible and the writer is quite sure that, as he has nothing extenuated, neither has he set down aught in malice, concerning a country and a people, for both of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.