AND LOWER EGYPT. 7 



posing other men, and where the quality of Euro- 

 pean was a stamp of infamy, and a title which 

 ensured insult and vexation. 



I obtained from Monrat Bey orders addressed 

 to all the comn.anders of Upper Egypt, that they 

 should give me assistance and protection. To 

 these he added a letter to Isma'in Abou All, a very 

 powerful prince of the Arabs, the same man by 

 whose assistance Mourat was restored to the si- 

 tuation of Scheick el Belled -, he wrote to his friend, 

 that having heard his health was disordered, he 

 had sent him a skilful physician, with whom he 

 would be pleased, and whom he recommended as 

 a person dear to himself. I was thus transformed 

 into a physician, nay, a physician to princes; 

 and to this title was I indebted for my escape from 

 the dangers which awaited me in Upper Egypt. 



Letters were also procured for me from the su- 

 perior of the missionaries for the propagation of 

 the faith, as they are called, and who have four 

 houses for the reception of m.onks in Upper 

 Egypt. It will be seen what effect tiiis rccoiu- 

 mendation produced upon these monks, equally 

 contemptible with those of the desert of Nilria. 



A French physician arrived from Aleppo, at 

 Cairo, with the intention of going into India by 



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