Egypt Under the British Author:H. Freeman Wood General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: Chapman and Hall., ld. Subjects: Egypt History / Ancient / Egypt History / Middle East / Egypt Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Middle East Travel / Middle East / Egypt Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no il... more »lustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. From one extreme to the other, it was less a matter of satisfaction to come upon some redcoats, fuddled and stupid, a night or two afterwards, among a score of privates in the Arab and low- class foreign quarter. A worthy British sergeant, encountered in the course of a morning constitutional towards the high ground of the Government Hospital, did not believe there was any particular harm in the "glass too much," among the lanes and dens in question. "A man can take too much," said he, "wherever he is, all the world over." "But here, don't you think it would be better for the credit of the British Occupation, in the eyes of the other European residents, if the men paid more attention to the matter?" "'Course it would! But you can't help it. The men enjoy themselves, and you can't hinder them." " No danger of affrays ? " " Oh no! We're on the best o' terms with 'em!" At the same time there was the standpoint of the better-class native, and the general European resident, as embodied in a comment repeated to me by an acquaintance newly arrived here from Cairo. That gentleman had been walking in company with a Cairo merchant when a party of British soldiers, quarrelling and apparently intoxicated, drove down the street in an open hackney carriage. Blows were struck, and one of the men was thrown violently out of the vehicle. He was picked up with a broken ankle or some such injury, and, evidently the ...« less