ABSTRACT
It is in vain to ask for the thing, no one can give it to thee. The Egyptian peasants call the landholders or 'proprietors of their fields by the name of
In towns those landlords are called But at present this class does not exist in Egypt, as Moho.mmed Aly Pasha has sequestered all landed property of individuals, and obliged them to take from the fiscus what they formerly received as rents from their farmers.
