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viledefamer; but he no longer urged my stay. I 

 acted as if it had never been spoken of, simply 

 asking of him assurances of protection and fa- 

 vour in facilitating the remaining travels which 

 I proposed to make in the principal towns of The- 

 bais, which I had not yet seen. He immediately 

 ordered letters of introduction to be made out, 

 and carried his attention so far, as to give orders to 

 all his overseers to defray my expenses at his cost 

 in every part of his dominions which 1 should 

 enter: of this generous foresight, a proof of the 

 Arabian's greatness of mind, I did not avail my- 

 self. We parted very well pleased with each 

 other ; Jsma'in in not having me for his physician, 

 and I in not being employed to work the miracle 

 of restoring him to youth again. 



I made haste to leave the convent of Neguadct 

 the abode of treacherous hypocrisy, not without 

 having made the superior feel that the villany of 

 his conduct was known to me, and passed on to 

 Kcus, where I arrived the 4th July in the evening. 

 Mallum Poctor, the same Copht at whose house I 

 had already spent a day, received me very civilly, 

 and procured for me a lodging sufficiently com- 

 fortable, in which I proposed to wait the depar- 

 ture of the caravan for Cosscir. It had been ar- 

 ranged some days before ; but accounts were re- 

 ceived 



