Ends so far as his book is concerned.

The chief thing about the book is that it sets others thinking--and acting.
Amongst them were Mr.Trelawny and myself.

Mr.Trelawny is a good linguist of the Orient, but he does not know Northern tongues.

As for me I have a faculty for learning languages; and when I was pursuing my studies in Leyden I learned Dutch so that I might more easily make references in the library there.

Thus it was, that at the very time when Mr.Trelawny, who, in making his great collection of works on Egypt, had, through a booksellers' catalogue, acquired this volume with the manuscript translation, was studying it, I was reading another copy, in original Dutch, in Leyden.