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when they are brouglit down to middle and lower Egypt. 



As the northerly winds set in about Noverober, and the 

 climate of Cairo is then not too hot for the European 

 invalid, he may safely arrange to arrive there at the 

 beginning or middle of this month. The ascent of the 

 river should be commenced before its expiration, so that 

 Thebes may be reached in December. Here he may 

 remain some little time, arriving in Nubia in the begin- 

 ning of January, before which time the climate is too hot, 

 and leaving it again about the middle of February for the 

 same reason. Resting again for a short time at Thebes, 

 the invahd should arrange to reach Cairo before the middle 

 of March, at which time the heat on the Nile is too great 

 to render a boat residence at all agreeable. Here he may 

 remain until the end of the month, when the climate of 

 Cairo itself begins to be too hot for a European invalid. 



The usual mode of voyaging up the Nile is, for a party 

 of from three to six persons, to agree with a Dragoman to 

 take them m a proper boat, and during a fixed period 

 (generally from ten to twelve weeks, if the second cata- 

 ract be visited), the Dragoman being paid a fixed sum 

 (ten pounds per month), and superintending all purchases 

 and performing all the necessary services ; or what is 

 better and more usual — the Dragoman finding the boat, 

 supplying food, and all other provisions for the voyage, 

 guides, and donkeys for visiting the temples, tombs, &c., and 

 paying all the additional charges, of whatever kind they 

 may be. The usual payment for this arrangement is one 

 guinea per day for each person ; and in all cases it is most 

 advisable that the agreement should be made at the Con- 

 sulate ; and all particulars as to the size and accommoda- 

 tions of the boat, the number of the crew, the number 

 and nature of the meals, the time to be given for seciijg 

 the temples, tombs, &c., should be all carefully enumerated, 

 as little trust is to be placed in the veracity and honesty 



