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 Introductory If books of travel were not written the stay-at-home millions would know little of the strange or interesting sights of this beautiful world of ours; and it surely is better to have a vicarious knowledge of what is beyond the vision than dwell in ignorance of the ways and places of men and women included in the universal human family. The Great East is a fascinating theme to most readers, and every traveler, from Marco Polo to the tourist of the present time, taking the trouble to record what he saw, has placed every fireside reader under distinct obligation.