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Queer Things About Egypt: A Travel Classic By Douglas Sladen! AAA+++
Queer Things About Egypt: A Travel Classic By Douglas Sladen! AAA+++
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EGYPT has two calls--one for England and one for all the world. To England she is a brand snatched from the burning. A century and more ago, in the two battles of Abûkir, by land and sea, Nelson and Abercromby saved her from becoming an Algeria; and less than a generation ago English blood and treasure rescued Egypt from rebellion, rapine, and massacre, in a long-drawn series of battles from Alexandria to Omdurman and Omdebrekat.
To the land it had rescued the Pax Britannica gave the priceless gifts of security of person and property, and unfailing and equitably distributed water, till the whole land smiled as it had never smiled since it lost the Pax Romana.
Therefore Egypt has an interest for the Briton beyond other nations.
EGYPT has two calls--one for England and one for all the world. To England she is a brand snatched from the burning. A century and more ago, in the two battles of Abûkir, by land and sea, Nelson and Abercromby saved her from becoming an Algeria; and less than a generation ago English blood and treasure rescued Egypt from rebellion, rapine, and massacre, in a long-drawn series of battles from Alexandria to Omdurman and Omdebrekat.
To the land it had rescued the Pax Britannica gave the priceless gifts of security of person and property, and unfailing and equitably distributed water, till the whole land smiled as it had never smiled since it lost the Pax Romana.
Therefore Egypt has an interest for the Briton beyond other nations.
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