Article: An English eccentric in Egypt.

THE British Isles have bequeathed to the world, among many important benefits, an agree able legacy of eccentrics, many of whom for one reason or another have discovered the full measure of their potential only when living abroad. The following, in an extract from a journal kept when travelling in Upper Egypt in early 1976, is about one of them, Umm Seti, The Mother of Seti.

Extract from my journal dated 20 January 1976:

Drove to Abydos to look at Seti's temple. Usual journey across scrubby country that becomes gentler and more varied north of Nag Hammadi. Full of stern men in indigo robes, swathed in scarves against the cold and riding small donkeys. ...

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