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Title: East of Suez
Ceylon, India, China and Japan

Author: Frederic Courtland Penfield

Release Date: November 14, 2008 [EBook #27260]

Language: English

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EAST OF SUEZ

PRESENT-DAY EGYPT

By Frederic Courtland Penfield, Former American Diplomatic
Agent and Consul-General to Egypt.

* * * * *

_Secretariat
du
Khedive_

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