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he called his own misfortune. Ibrahim assunning a 

 terrible tone, commanded the villain to be caned to 

 death. I permitted terror to convey perturbation, 

 and the most cruel pangs, into the soul of this base 

 rascal ; but when T saw the instruments ofpunish- 

 ment prepared, I entreated he might be forgiven. 

 Ibrahim, indignant, would not listen to a petition 

 in his behalf, and would only grant it on tlic word 

 of honour wliich he made n^e give him, that I 

 would myself punish the culprit. I expressed m}'' 

 warmest gratitude to t!ie Kiasch''f, and I drove 

 from my house the Kabir^ v\ho not knowing v/hat 

 had just come to pass, was come once more to 

 urge me to depart with him. In this manner my 

 project of a journey into Abyssinia was defeated. 



I will not quit this subject without speaking a 

 few words respecting those Nubians who, from the 

 extremity of Africa, come to bring into the capital 

 of Egypt those valuable commodities which nature 

 seems to have placed in their countries, to compen- 

 sate the insupportable heat of the climate and the 

 oppressive scorching heat of ttic sp.n. And, in the 

 first place, I must rectify the mistake of an English 

 traveller who visited Upper Egypt some years be- 

 fore me, because history and coipmerce ^ire inte- 

 rested in it. Speaking of Siout, Mr. Bruce says, 

 that the caravan of Sennaar came there formerly, 

 and that those who composed it rendezvoused at 



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