. The rulers of the Mediterranean. anner and thought than his agewould suggest, and if he is sulky to Englishmenit is not to be wondered at. They could hard-ly expect his Highness to regard them as seri-ously as his friends as they regard Khedive gave me a private audience at theAbdine Palace while I was in Cairo, and fromwhat he said then and from what others who areclose to him told me of him, I obtained a verydifferent idea of his personality than I had re-ceived from the English. He struck me as being distinctly obstinate—acharacteristic which is so marked in our Presidentth
. The rulers of the Mediterranean. anner and thought than his agewould suggest, and if he is sulky to Englishmenit is not to be wondered at. They could hard-ly expect his Highness to regard them as seri-ously as his friends as they regard Khedive gave me a private audience at theAbdine Palace while I was in Cairo, and fromwhat he said then and from what others who areclose to him told me of him, I obtained a verydifferent idea of his personality than I had re-ceived from the English. He struck me as being distinctly obstinate—acharacteristic which is so marked in our Presidentthat it can only be considered one of the qualifi-cations for success, and is probably the quality inthe Khedive which the English describe as sulki-ness. What I liked in him most was his pridein his army and in the Egyptian people as Egyp-tians. It is always well that a ruler should be soenthusiastic over what is his own that he showsit even to the casual stranger, for if he exhibits itto him, how much more will he show it to his. THE ENGLISHMEN IN EGYPT 175 people! The Khedive has gentle tastes, and issaid to find his amusement in his garden andamong flowers and on the farm lands of his es-tates ; he speaks several languages very well, anddresses and looks—except for the fez and his at-tendants—like any other young man of twenty-three or twenty-four in Paris or New York. Hisministers, who know him best, describe him ashaving a high spirit, and one that, as he growsolder and will be guided by greater experience,will lead him to firmer authority for his own goodand for the good of his people. One remark of the Khedives which is of inter-est to Americans was to the effect that the offi-cers in his army who had been trained by StoneBey, and those other American officers who en-tered the Egyptian army after the end of our CivilWar, were, in his opinion, the best-trained men intheir particular department in his army. This isthe topographical work, and the making of mapsand draw
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