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Title: Some world-circuit saunterings
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Nichols, William F. (William Ford), 1849-1924
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: San Francisco, P. Elder and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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to Cairo to goto the Museum. Accordingly with the expert Drago-man Gladius Morgan, well known to some of our goodCalifornia friends whom he conducted in yearsgone by, we found the Museum a natural continuationof the river archaeology. And it is safe to say thatto anyone with any instinct at all to burrow intothe past there is not a more absorbing collection ofantiquities anywhere in the world. The greatMuseum itself is a tribute to the perseverance andgenius of some of the most notable Egyptologists—beginning with Mariette and including the lasteminent Director M. Maspero and the ConservatorEmil Brugsch Pasha to whom the arrangement andclassification of the antiquities are chiefly due.Brugsch Pashas friendship for a dear parishioner ofmy St. James days. Miss Mary Coles, dating fromhis visit to the Philadelphia Centennial of 1876,afforded me the opportunity to meet him and toexperience his courtesies. With the fine modernhousing of the collection it is difficult to reahze the (54) ^
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B t» S.5J B S fl (( -•« roS £:= S » c - 03 EGYPTIAN MUSEUM—OLD CAIRO obstacles its promoters first encountered to find aplace to put it, being literally driven from pillar topost-office, the government authorities of the timesomewhat grudgingly granting it space in an oldunsuitable building of the mail department. The collection itself though now thoroughly cata-logued and corridored spreads out like a veritablemaze to the saunterer. The only possible thing is totreat it menu-like, tell the Dragoman what you wouldespecially like to see in the time you have and thenkeep up with him, resolutely overcoming the neck-twisting habit towards every captivating case youpass. And just there comes the advantage of havinga thoroughly well posted, inteUigent and authorizedguide. As we were hstening to the few well chosendescriptive comments of Gladius while looking atthe mummy of the supposed Pharoah of the Exodus,one of another party of tourists sidled up to him andasked him a question in

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