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Story of an Emigrant.
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der the Great, and formerly renowned for its commerce, and
as the centre of learning and culture of the then known world.
Even now this city is grand and beautiful, although its
beauty and style are different from anything else that I have
seen. We often form conceptions of things which we have
not seen, but which are interesting to us, and when we
afterward find that those conceptions are wrong we feel
disappointed. Thus I had always thought of Egypt as a country
of a dark tone of color, probably on account of the fertility
of the soil of the valley of the Nile, since we Northerners
find that fertile soil is dark and poor soil of a lighter color.
Therefore I could hardly believe m v own eyes when
everything I saw on the shore looked white. Not only the
houses, palaces, and huts, but even the roads and the fields,
all had a wTiite color.
As we neared the harbor, and even before the pilot came on
board, we noticed that all the flags were at half-mast. As soon
as I landed and had shown my passport to the customs officer
an elegant equipage was placed at my disposal under the
charge of a dragoman, and we drove to the office of the
American consulate, where also the flag was at half-mast.
The sad occasion for this soon became apparent. President
Garfield had died during my voyage across the
Mediterranean, and the whole civilized world was in mourning.
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