Excerpt from The People of Egypt
Thackeray’s studies, with brush and pencil, of the people one sees in Egypt has been well chosen, for to speak of Egyptians at the present day is almost impossible. Such a strangely mixed aggregation of Levantine races dwells in the delta and valley of the Nile that it is safer to speak of the people of Egypt rather than of Egyptians. The cry of Egypt for the Egyptians Which is beginning to be heard in some quarters seems to voice an ignorance of the country, for the more one knows of Egypt the more one is obliged to ask, Who are the Egyptians It is true that the census classes some ten millions as natives and only about half a million as semisedentary Bedouins, but the term native covers a great assemblage of semi-egyptian hybrids.
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