Abstract:
The following is quoted from Professor Jeffery’s letter of June 23rd to Edward w٠ Forbes, announcing his arrival in Cairo:
«It was a most uneventful journey across, with not a single day that had more than a ripple on the water، The boat was comfortably full, but not crowded• Seme twenty-five passengers were taking the cruise,—that Is, returning to New York on the same ship• The majority of passengers, however, seemed to be disembarking at Beirut• For same of them Beirut was only a landing point from which they would continue their journey، Several were going on from there to Baghdad, and we had one Afghan physician, who had been for a course in
