Whenever in this great bundle of papers or
book (if book it is to be) you see any words about matters of
religion which would seem to involve the assertion of my own
opinion, you are to understand me just as if one or other of the
qualifying phrases above mentioned had been actually inserted in
every sentence. My general direction for you to construe me thus
will render all that I write as strictly and actually true as if I
had every time lugged in a formal declaration of the fact that I
was merely expressing the notions of other people.
{24} "Vino d'oro."
{25} Shereef.
{26} Tennyson.
{27} The other three cities held holy by Jews are Jerusalem,
Hebron, and Safet.
{28} Hadj a pilgrim.
{29} Milnes cleverly goes to the French for the exact word which
conveys the impression produced by the voice of the Arabs, and
calls them "un peuple criard."
{30} There is some semblance of bravado in my manner of talking
about the plague. I have been more careful to describe the terrors
of other people than my own. The truth is, that during the whole
period of my stay at Cairo I remained thoroughly impressed with a
sense of my danger. I may almost say, that I lived in perpetual
apprehension, for even in sleep, as I fancy, there remained with me
some faint notion of the peril with which I was encompassed.
