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East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan By: Frederic Courtland Penfield (1855-1922) |
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PRESENT DAY EGYPT By Frederic Courtland Penfield, Former American Diplomatic
Agent and Consul General to Egypt. Secretariat
du
Khédive RAS EL TEEN PALACE,
ALEXANDRIA, 4th November, 1899 FREDERIC C. PENFIELD, ESQUIRE,
Manhattan Club, New York.
My dear Sir: I am commanded by H. H. The Khedive to
acknowledge the receipt of the copy of your
book "Present Day Egypt," which you have
so kindly forwarded for his acceptance. I am to say that His Highness has read it
with much pleasure and interest, as it is the
only book published on Egypt of to day by
an author thoroughly acquainted with the
subject through long residence and official
position in the country. I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) ALFRED B. BREWSTER,
Private Secretary to H. H. the Khedive. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Fully illustrated.
Uniform with "East of Suez." 8vo. 396 pages. $2.50 The Century Co.,
Union Square New York
[Illustration: GULF OF MANAR PEARLING BOAT, AND DIVERS RESTING IN
THE WATER]
EAST OF SUEZ
CEYLON, INDIA, CHINA AND JAPAN
By
Frederic Courtland Penfield
Author of "Present Day Egypt," etc.
Illustrated from Drawings and Photographs
"East is East, and West is West, and
never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at
God's great Judgment Seat."
Kipling.
[Illustration]
NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1907
Copyright, 1906, 1907, by
THE CENTURY CO. Published, February, 1907
THE DE VINNE PRESS
TO THE MEMORY OF
KATHARINE
Introductory
If books of travel were not written the stay at home millions would know
little of the strange or interesting sights of this beautiful world of
ours; and it surely is better to have a vicarious knowledge of what is
beyond the vision than dwell in ignorance of the ways and places of men
and women included in the universal human family. The Great East is a fascinating theme to most readers, and every
traveler, from Marco Polo to the tourist of the present time, taking the
trouble to record what he saw, has placed every fireside reader under
distinct obligation. So thorough was my mental acquaintance with India through years of
sympathetic study of Kipling that a leisurely survey of Hind simply
confirmed my impressions. Other generous writers had as faithfully
taught what China in reality was, and Mortimer Menpes, Basil Hall
Chamberlain, and Miss Scidmore had as conscientiously depicted to my
understanding the ante war Japan. Grateful am I, as well, to the legion
of tireless writers attracted to the East by recent strife and conquest,
who have made Fuji more familiar to average readers than any mountain
peak in the United States; who have made the biographies of favorite
geishas known even in our hamlets and mining camps, and whose agreeable
iteration of scenes on Manila's lunetta compel our Malaysian capital to
be known as well as Coney Island and Atlantic City they have so
graphically portrayed and described interesting features that of them
nothing remains to be told. But to know Eastern lands and peoples
without an intermediary is keenly delightful and compensating. The travel impulse and longing for first hand knowledge, native with
most mortals, is yearly finding readier expression. Our grandparents
earned a renown more than local by crossing the Atlantic to view England
and the Continent, while our fathers and mothers exploring distant
Russia and the Nile were accorded marked consideration. The wandering
habit is as progressive as catching, and what sufficed our ancestors
satisfies only in minor degree the longing of the present generation for
roving. Hence the grand tour, the circuit of the earth, is becoming an
ordinary achievement. And while hundreds of Americans are compassing the
earth this year, thousands will place the globe under tribute in seasons
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