Book excerpt: Excerpt from My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia, Vol. 2 A Modern Guide for Travel on the great River, and grand fluvial Contrasts - From Cairo onward - The Halting Points, and Shore Scenery - The Guests of the Khedive - Sight-seeing - Whom they met and how they were amused. 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.