ORD LONDESBOROUGH IN EGYPT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 224, 8 September 1862, Page 6

ORD LONDESBOROUGH IN EGYPT.

This English nobleman, having visited EgA-pton a shooting expedition, and killed great numbers of storks and other harmless aquatic birds on the waters of the Nile, a proceeding similar to that Avhich is often, practised here against the graceful native companion, the following curious letter has been sent from Egypt to the Field — " Oh, illustrious friend and joy of my "liver! I approach thy exalted seat and kiss the garment that hangs from thy knees. Oh, Field Bey! to thee I bring my shikaiet, my complaint, and my petition. "Here me, oh Field Bey! and be it known to thee that a red-headed infidel, of upright mind, though Avandering in the darkness that covers those unblessed by the Prophet (upon Avhom be peace !), has directed me to thy footstool with my complaint, as to a man in authority amongst the ship-sailing infidels, the Ingleez—may their gold nes rer be less ! that they may scatter it amongst the faithful on the banks of the Nile. " Oh, Field Bey ! look—here is my complaint. A great Ingleez, a Mister Lordlondsboro Bey, with much gold and many guns, has come amongst us. We Avelcomed him, we bowed down to him, for his hand was'open, and the floos (money) is all-powerful in this nation as in thine. But this son of burnt parents has begun to shoot our storks arid pigeon?. Know, oh Field Bey, that our storks are our children; they bring luck to our houses, they kill and eat the venemous serpents, those offspring of Sheitan. Why does he kill our storks—does he eat them ? Then may his belly breed corruption! We "wished to seize on him and make him cat stick ; but lo! be is protected by the Basha. And so he •goes from village to village, killing and Avounding our gentle ....storks, and.refusing to i listen to our Avoids of complaint. May j his beard be "defiled, the'infidel stork-slayer! " The dragoman tells us that this "man is a member of the great Inglish Midjlis, or House of Pirs, but this we believe not, since his beard is not yet grown ; nor can one sit in the Midjlis of the Ingk-ez who lives on the Nile and slay storks and pigeon?. The dragomans are the father of lies, and laugh at ur beards. " Oh, Field Bey! they tell 'me that you worship the fox .in your country, even as did the infidels who build the pyramids, and that not even a Basha from our country durst kill that animal. Be it so; the Prophet hath said that there ever will" be infidels and pagans. But I pray you to let your storks lie respected, and recall Mr. Lorcllondsboro Bey from Egypt; and see not his face, receive him not, neither salaam him, but cause him to eat stick until the soles of his feet burn, even as my.heart"-has burned' when 1 saw him slay our storks. And thus oh Bey ; may the spring of our friendship be no longer defiled with the dust of my indignation. From ': Abdullah il Fakeek (Siout)."