TRAVELS 



IN 



UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT, 



CHAP. XXXVIII. 



Project of a jouniey mto Ahyss'm'ia — The manner in 

 ivhich the author supplied the insufficiency of the 

 means •wherevoith government furnished him — Z)/V- 

 gust with vohich travellers are oppressed — Prepa- 

 ration for a journey into Upper Egypt — Facility of 

 the easterji nations iji speaking languages — Syrian 

 interpreter — Boulac — Curlews — Baths — Embu' 

 he — Butter — Lupin — Ancient Cairo — Joseph's 

 granaries — Aqueduct — Nilotneter — Gizah. 



The project of penetrating into Abyssinia, of vi- 

 siting those immense and interesting countries in 

 the interior of that part of the globe which is 

 least known, to do honour to my country by an 

 important expedition, which an Englishman, aided 

 by every means, by every assistance with which 

 government could supply him, had attempted 

 successfully ; in a word, to compensate by a bold 

 and glorious enterprise, the contracted concep- 

 voL. III. 9 tions. 



