My Impressions of Egypt. BRITISH CHANGES IN THE LAND OF THE PHARAOHS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)

My Impressions of Egypt. BRITISH CHANGES IN THE LAND OF THE PHARAOHS.

(By lan MiieliMtiu in the Daily Muil.) When ouo visits Egypt with his eyes open — especially if he bus vioilcd it before—be conies Home with venous impressions, and the lust m tho absolute (juietiiesu of the counliy. Twelve yours ago l'ort B.iid was safe but unpleasant. Thirty years ago it was no barburio a place that a mau would oomo into the hotel and remark casually that some one had tried to slab j him, but that he had shot tho other man first, and his neighbour at the table would ask him to pass tho musUrd, THE BRIG THAT NEVER CAMIi BACK. It was tuqn the wickedest place on the face of tlw earth, and largely in the possession of the refuse of this Levant, who had bean discharged by the Canal Company, and were living by their wits and their knives. People who had any regftvd for their lives walked down the middle of the street after dusk in case they should be dragged into a side- passage and stabbed, and a revolver was more necessary than a hat. An energetic prefect of police managed to tnuisport the ruffianism of Port Said to Alexandria, so the story goes, and after the same gang had made Alexandria intolerable a prefect of police there, having come to terms with tho foreign Consuls, who had an unholy habit of protecting their own subjects, even though they were cut-tliroal<s, gathered togethered the moral residuum of Alexandria, native and imported, but o,H | European in descent, and sent Hhem for a trip to sea in an old sailing vessel, which was accompanied by a gunboat, and, so the stoiy concludes, the gunboat came back, but that brig was never seen again. Port Said to-day is as orderly, | and as clean, and as safe as an English county town. I