AND LOWER EGYPt, IJ2 



CHAP. XLV. 



Italian monks — Cophtish cive — Excessive heat—^ 

 Bardis — Down — Monks of Fai sellout — Arahian 

 frince — Furschout — Author s boat put in requisi' 

 lion — Justice ivhich the Arabian prince onlend to 

 he done him — Intolerance on the part of a Mame- 

 luc — Departure from Sahet — R(fts of fastecas — 

 Crocodile — Hou^ Diospolis-parva — Kafr Essa'i.:d 

 — Rafts of earthenware — Birds — Dogs — Z^^w- 

 gerous passas^e of the Nile — Accident vchich befell 

 the author^ boat — EA Bub, another dangerous 

 place. 



Before I quilted Echmimm, I was obliged to have 

 a moment of correspondence with the Italian 

 niissijnaries, of whom I had never once thought, 

 and whom I had not seen all the time of my re- 

 sidence. The master of the boat, who had car- 

 ried me to Siout, had returned to Cairo, from 

 whence he was to take in a cargo for Upper Egypt. 

 He had promised to bring me whatever might be 

 intrusted to his conveyance for my use, from the 

 country of Francs. We had agreed that the con- 

 vent of monks at Echmimm should be the place at 

 which he might find me, or at least gain inielli* 

 gence respecting me. I wrote then to the superior, 



K 3 that 



