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IS 152.2
Story of an Emigrant.
years of theological studies he was ordained a priest, and
admitted into the Jesuit order.
He had now been ordered to supply himself with a full set
of certain scientific instruments, and with them to repair to
Cairo, Egypt, where he would receive further orders. I
talked a great deal with this man. He spoke English
fluently, and was equally familiar with nearly all the other
European languages. He was no fanatic or religious crank,
but a polished, cultured gentleman, who had seen and
learned to know the world, reaped its honors and tasted its
allurements, and he was evidently as liberal and tolerant as
myself. And this man went to a field of action of which he
had no knowledge whatsoever. Probably an honorable
position as professor in a university was awaiting him, or
perhaps he would have to go to some isolated mountain to
observe a phenomenon of nature in the interest of science, or
penetrate a malarious wilderness as missionary among
savages, where he would be debarred from all intercourse with
civilized people, and deprived of all the comforts and
conveniences to which he had been used during his previous life.
Still lie went willingly and joyfully to his work, completely
indifferent as to his fate, thoroughly convinced that he was
on the path of duty—to accomplish what God intended he
should do. I was on my way to a great country and a
court as the representative of one of the greatest nations 011
earth, but when I walked the deck arm in arm with this
humble priest, I felt my inferiority compared with him, and
I actually considered his position enviable. On the same
voyage I became acquainted with a Danish traveler, — A.
d’lrgens-Bergh,—who afterward met me in Injdia, where we
visited many places of interest together, and established a
friendship which afforded both of us much pleasure.
On the morning of September 21st the coast of Egypt
appeared in sight. There is Alexandria, founded by Alexan
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