Excerpt from Notes of a Tour From Brindisi to Yokohama: 1883-1884 Port Said was reached on the morning of the 1sth. There we remained till the even ing, when we steamed on to Alexandria. We have decided to give up the Suez Canal journey, and go by the overland route to Suez; this will give us more time in Cairo. Port Said, Nov. 15 -i am glad to set foot first in classic Alexandria, and not in this wretchedly uninteresting place; an ugly har bour, with a lighthouse and some out-build ings to keep it company. 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.