The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction 32
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction 32
Reuben Percy, John Timbs
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It was in ^ twofold manner characteristic of tlie speaker; fos, as it was well known that my estimn^ of hi.H actual revenue was as near as posaihfe to the truth, his audacious attempt upon o«jr credulity, in thus almost doubling the amount could have been practiiced only by one who had acquired a competent haiidihood of countenance by previous efibrts of a like character; whiUt the mode in which he turned a subject involving the question of Che population of £(^ypt into a matter of Tevenue for ...himself, illustrated happily the spirit of egotism, which is one of the ruling passions of his nature. I would have glad^ reminded him of the real state of his Fellahs, who, instead of yielding a tithe only of their produce to his treasury, are allowed to re- tain lust so much only as is necessary to Hupply them, from year to year, with the bare means of existence ; but, recollecting that I was within the precincts of a coor^ where a conventional etiquette shields alike the Pasha's divan and the King's thronie from the rude assaults of truth, I contented myself with remarking, that I believed at present the population of Egypt did not exceed two millions, and that two-thirds of the soil, capable, by a slight effort of labour, of being fertilized b^ the Nile, were at pre- sent out of cuUivntiott.
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