122 MALUS. 



French fleet in the naval battle of Aboukir ; and we read 

 without surprise in the memoranda that he reentered 

 Cairo fatigued, ill, and a prey to profound grief. 



About the period of which we are speaking, General 

 Bonaparte created the Institute of Egypt. Malus was 

 one of its first members. 



Some days afterwards, Malus received an order to join 

 General Desaix in Upper Egypt. On his return to 

 Cairo with the division of " the just Sultan," he was 

 charged with the duty of making preparations for the 

 fete of the 4th Vandemiaire,* in the square of Esbekieh. 

 " This was," he says, " a trifling distraction from the grief 

 which had afflicted me for some time." On the oOthj 

 and following days, Malus powerfully contributed to re- 

 press the insurrection which had arisen in Cairo ; having 

 arrested with his own hand, in the heat of the tumult, 

 one of the insurgents, he found in his possession objects 

 which he knew belonged to General Caffarelli, his imme- 

 diate commander and friend ; from these he believed that 

 he had been killed ; and it was not till after two days 

 that he learned that Caffarelli had quitted his house be- 

 fore the Turkish revolters had pillaged it. 



After the rebellion had been suppressed, Captain Ma- 

 lus commenced the establishment of a fort in the position 







whence during the insurrection they had cannonaded 

 the grand mosque. The construction of this fort occu- 

 pied him a long time ; it received the name of Dupuis. 

 Afterwards he commanded at the reconnoitring of jthe 

 communications of the Nile with the lake Menzeleh and 

 with Salchieh. In this expedilion the young officer made 

 discoveries of great interest in respect to archaeology, and 

 the ancient geography of this part of Egypt. 



* September 25. | October 20. 



