SZ TRAVELS IN UP"EIl 



Sioiit and at Manfelotct, and placed tliemselves UHr 

 d(T the proteclion of the Bey who resided there; 

 afterwards entering by the south cast intotlv de- 

 sert of Libya, they proceeded forward to Elouah, 

 Avhich is the great Oa$is ot the aneients, and froni 

 thence crossed the immense desert of Selima *. 

 These caravans from the interior of Africa hy vc not 

 ceased to travel on the shores of the Nile to Sioid 

 and to Manfeloui, and that which I liave just re- 

 lated, proves that they rendezvous there. 



. Besides cold and other merchandise, these Afri- 

 cans bring also animals, such as monkeys and per- 

 roquets, which form the amusement of rich people 

 at Cairo, and one of the resources employed by 

 puppet-show men in order to attract the multitude. 

 Monkeys, which, like a number of other animals, 

 ■were one of the objects of veneration to the Egyp- 

 tians-j~, are not natives of their country. The inha- 

 bitants of those cities where they were considered as 

 sacred, went into Ethiopia in search of this agree- 

 able species of divinities. It is, besides, from this 

 country, and from the land of Yemen, the forests of 

 which, according to the report of Niebuhr, abound 

 with this sort of animals, that they are brought into 

 Egypt as an article of commerce. I never saw 



* Travels to the Sources of the Nile, translated by Casttra. 



"j- fjis enim Serapisque et longd simia caudd^ says Prudentius, in 



making an enumeration of the gods of the Egyptians. 



there 



