Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland .. . k one wing of pillars and put up ahouse when they were here in 1799. The English con-sulate is within the temple walls, defacing the finest partof the fagade. It is a shame that a great nation like Eng-land should allow her flag to float over a house whosepresence is a desecration, a robbery, a violation of interna- 276 GRANTS TOUR tional courtesy. There could be no more shameless van-dalism, and when one of our party asked Brugsch why theKhedive did not take the house down and allow the ownert
Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland .. . k one wing of pillars and put up ahouse when they were here in 1799. The English con-sulate is within the temple walls, defacing the finest partof the fagade. It is a shame that a great nation like Eng-land should allow her flag to float over a house whosepresence is a desecration, a robbery, a violation of interna- 276 GRANTS TOUR tional courtesy. There could be no more shameless van-dalism, and when one of our party asked Brugsch why theKhedive did not take the house down and allow the ownerto take his flag elsewhere, like other consuls, the answerwas that he did not wish to ofiend England. This is oneof the many instances, I am sorry to say, where Englishinfluence in the East is only another name for Englishtyranny. The Englishman, so jealous of his rights athome, so eloquent in defense of British honor, sincerityand fair play, is the least considerate of the rights of othersin a land like Egypt. He looks upon these people as hishewers of wood and drawers of water, whose duty is to. THE OBELISK AT LUXOR. work and to thank the Lord when they are not only regard these monuments as reservoirs fromwhich they can supply their own museums, and for thatpurpose they have plundered Egypt, just as Lord Elginj)lundered Greece. The Khedive has been trying to put AROUND THE WORLD. 277 a stop to the business, and with some success. But meansare found to avoid his commands. It is really an act offraud to take a monument or an antiquity out of Brugsch says, with natural emotion, that .whenever anyespecially rare discovery is made daring the excavations,the most valuable relic of all is joretty certam to be foundshortly after in one of the European museums. In the morning we made ready for our trip toMemnon and the temple home of Bameses. We set outearly in the morning—early, at least, for a party of idlevoyagers who did not crave a reputation for rising.
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