56 THE BEE, OR Dec. 22, 



But unexpe£led delays intervening, he was feizcd with 

 a bilious complaint, which carried him oflf in the 

 end of the year 1788, in Cairo, where he was decently 

 interred in tlie neighbourhood of fuch of the Englilli 

 as had ended their daj^s in that Capital, 



Of this furprifing man, whofe ardour of mind could 

 fcarcely be equalled in any age or country, I know 

 not if any portrait remains. " His perfon, we are 

 told by one who knew him well, though fcarcely 

 exceeding the middle fize, was remarkably exprcffive 

 of adtivity and ftrength ; and his manners, though un- 

 polifhed, were neither uncivil nor unpleahng. Little at- 

 tentive to difference of rank, he feemed to confider all 

 men as his equals, and as fuch he refpefted them. His 

 genius, though uncultivated and irregular, was origi- 

 nal and comprehenfive. Ardent in his willies, yet calm 

 in his deliberations ; daring in his purpofes, but guard- 

 ed in his meafurcs ; impatient of controul, yet capabla 

 offtrong endurance; adventurous beyond the concep- 

 tion of ordinary men, yet wary and confiderate, and at- 

 tentive to all precautions, he appeared to be formed 

 by nature for achievements of hardihood and peril. 



They who compare the extent of his pilgrimage 

 through the vafl regions of Tartary, with the fcantinefs 

 of his funds, will naturally aik, by what means he ob- 

 tained a fubfiftence on the road ? AH that I have ever 

 leerned from him on the fubjeft, was, that his faffer- 



ings were exceffive" '• I am accullomed, fays he, 



in our laft converfation, ('twas on the morning of his 

 departure for Africa) I am accuftomed to hardships — 

 i have known both hunger and nakednefs to the ut~ 

 moft extremity of human fufferings — have known what 

 it is to have food given to me, as charity to a mad- 

 man ; and I have at times been obliged to fhelter my- 

 felf under the miferies of that character, to avoid a hea- 

 vier calamity- My diftrefles have been greater tha« I 

 ever owned, or ever will o-wn to any man. Sudi evils 

 are terrible to bear ; but they never yet had power to 



