Item 06: Letters sent by Robert Christian Wilson to his family, 1918-April 1919 - Page 320
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under the sun, but all "merchants" mind you, one begins to wonder if they are such wonderful people and whether the fat old men in the Mouski are genuine Arabian merchants, relics of the past age, or whether they are just acting up to a popular European belief in order to draw custom.
When you find how many of them are half bred Greeks you begin to wonder still more.
I know that often before I have cursed the Egyptian and told people wha [what] a crawling blackguard he was, but I must withdraw and appologise. I was blaming him for the sins of his parasites - all the different nationalities, Greeks, Italians, Jews, Spaniards and half breds who prey on him, whilst I in my ignorance was not able to realize the great difference between the true Egyptian and would-be Egyptian Greek parasites.