text: ) Since the period of this rencontre the _ill-omened_ blue eyes [14] as well as blue pelisses of our countrywomen have been seen with sufficient frequency on the banks of the Nile to render the one it is to be hoped no longer an object of alarm to the natives nor the latter to errant members of the Institute: but a narrative of the impressions produced on a cultivated female mind by a residence among the modern inhabitants of the land of the pyramids was still a desideratum