Excerpt from Lost Letters From Lesbos During our stay in Cairo in the win ter of 1900, we made an excursion to Naukratis, l which was most interesting and instructive. I for one almost over came my prejudice to Pharaoh Hopras,2 when I saw how thoroughly he had ap preciated Greek culture, and I shared to a degree the enthusiasm of the German Egyptologists who are finding so much that is precious in this greco-egyptian town. I felt like taking a grubbing axe and spade in my own hands, so eager was I to unearth something in the way of a Greek relic from Egyptian soil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.