through Egypt and Syrias _ » gi 
to hima, and the property that remained, arrived on the third 
day at the place from which he had come. In the intervals 
of his illnefs he vifited the chief perfons of the place; and as 
the eyes of the people became habituated to him, he found 
his fituation growing fomew hat more tolerable. Though 
idle during the eoutfe, of the winter refpecting the ‘nied ae 
objects ve his voyage, he grew, of courfe, more familiar with 
ihe manners and particular dialet of the country; for the 
Arabic fpoken in it differs materially from the vernacula? 
idiom of Egypt. 
The following fummer (1794) Mr. Brown, having in 
fome degree recov ered his ftrength, determined to go and 
refide for a time near the Sultan, both to fupplicate for re~ 
drefs of what he had already fuffered, and to embrace any 
opportunity that might offer of preffing his requeft for per- 
miffion to advance. On his arrival at El Fafher, his good 
friend Melek Mifellim beifg employed by his matter in the 
fouth, he went under the protection of the Melek Ibrahim, 
one of the oldeft perfons in authority there, and took up his 
jodging in the houfe of a man named Mufa. During Mr. 
Brown’s ftay-at El Father, of three entire months, he was 
folicitous to attend regularly the levees of the Sultan, which 
were from fix in the morning till ten; but could very rarely 
obtain admittance, and when he did he had sio opportunity 
of fpeaking. After waiting in fruitlefs expetation at Ef 
Fafher, when the time of his departure was drawing near, an 
accident happened, which, though not of the moft pleafing 
kind, contributed to make him noticed, and obtained for 
him at length an interview with the Sultan. One day, as 
he was reading in his hut, a female flave belonging to the 
houfe, a girl chant fifteen, came to the door of it, when, 
from a whim of the moment, he feized the cloth that was 
round her waift, which dropped, and left her naked. Chance 
fo determined that the owner of the flave paffed at that 
time, and faw her. The man immediately threw his turban 
on the earth, and exclaimed—Ye believers in the Prophet 
hear me! Ye faithful avenge me! (with other fimilar ex- 
preflions :) a Caffre has violated the property of a defcendant 
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