NILE NOTES.

OF A HOWADJI.

BY

GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

PREFACE.

WHEN the Persian Poet Hafiz was asked by the Philoso

pher Zenda what he was good for, he replied:

"Of what use is a flower?"

"A flower is good to smell," said the philosopher. "And I am good to smell it," said the poet.

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