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‘The Modern Amun-Ra’
John Mason Cook
(1834-1899)
In 1889 John Mason Cook, lent his Agent, Albert Ferdinand Pagnon
the money to buy the Luxor Hotel
“The nominal ruler [of Egypt] is Tewfik; but Tewfik takes his orders from
Baring; and Baring, I suspect, has to take his orders from Cook. The latter
Sovereign becomes more and more potent as we get further up the Nile
and here at Luxor, where a special hotel has arisen under the light of his
countenance, he figures quite as a modern Ammon-Ra.” 8.1
Vanity Fair, 9th March, 1889
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