SAND AND CANVAS;
A
NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURES IN EGYPT,
WITH A SOJOURN
AMONG THE ARTISTS IN ROME.
By SAMUEL BEVAN.
LONDON:
CHARLES GILPIN, 5, BISHOPSGATE STREET, WITHOUT.
MDCCCXLIX.
LONDON:
RICHARD BARRETT, PRINTER,
MARK LANE.
TO
THOMAS WAGHORN, Lieut. R.N.,
WHO BY HIS OWN
ENERGY, AND INDEFATIGABLE EXERTIONS,
SUCCEEDED IN ESTABLISHING THE PRACTICABILITY
OF THE
OVERLAND ROUTE TO INDIA;
SACRIFICING HIS TIME AND FORTUNE IN DIVESTING THE EGYPTIAN PORTION
OF THAT ROUTE OF ITS VARIED DISCOMFORTS; FACILITATING BY
THE AID OF STEAM THE PASSAGE OF THE MAHMOUDIEH
AND THE NILE; AND RENDERING SAFE, AND
EVEN AGREEABLE, THE ONCE
DREADED DESERT,
THESE SKETCHES ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.