1()4 TRAVELS IN UPPER 



coffee at Paris at the rate of five shillings a pound ? 

 I brought away a bag of this sweet-scented berry of 

 the Arabian coffee-tree. The trunk which con- 

 tained it has retained the perfume for years, and 

 every time it was opened the fragrance was com- 

 municated. I even showed it to some people to 

 satisfy themselves of the difference which existed 

 between this coffee, and that which was sold in 

 France for real Mokka. 



In conversation with Mallum Foclor I expressed 

 a desire to visit the coasts of the Red Sea, and he 

 offered to get me conducted to Cosseir in safety. I 

 promised to avail myself of his proposal, but it was 

 first necessary that 1 should see the Scheick Isma'in- 

 j4bou-Ali. I had given him my word to wait for 

 him at Neguade, and I returned thither with my 

 monk, after having been loaded with civilities by 

 the Copht of Kous. 



I employed the stay which I was obliged to make 

 at I^eguade, in collecting difierent observations cal- 

 culated to procure me an intimate acquaintance 

 with the countries in which I then was. I directed 

 my first inquiries to the most important considera- 

 tion, to that which has been, in all ages, a subject 

 of admiration, the fertility of the lands of Upper 

 Egypt. 



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