title: Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians
author:  Edward William Lane 
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zlib_text: Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
  1
  Notes on a Journey from
  Cornhill to Grand Cairo
  by William Makepeace Thackeray
  
  Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
  2
  DEDICATION
  TO CAPTAIN SAMUEL LEWIS, OF THE PENINSULAR AND
  ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S SERVICE.
   My Dear Lewis,
  After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed
  uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities,
  grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the
  shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors,
  however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than paper, whereof I beg you
  to accept a little in the shape of this small volume.  It contains a few
  notes of a voyage which your skill and kindness rendered doubly pleasant;
  and of which I don't think there is any recollection more agreeable than
  that it was the occasion of making your friendship.
  If the noble Company in whose service you command (and whose fleet
  alone m