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mingle as much dried earth with the mass as he 

 had piliered of the grain. 



As I walked by the Nile I discovered on the 

 rocks some weevils, about ten lines in length and 

 four in breadth ; their colour is a dark yellow and 

 tinged with a blackish hue. 



We were the spectators of a conflict between 

 two parties of Arabs at a small distance from the 

 Nile. Although the tire of musketry continued 

 for a considerable time, it was by no means fatal. 

 We did not see a single person drop ; they fired at 

 a distance, and almost always on full gallop. It 

 was a slight skirmish between bad marksmen, 

 mutually endeavouring to shun each other. After 

 a full hour employed in an exercise, which ap- 

 peared to be a tilt for amusement rather than a 

 real engagement, we saw one of the parties retire 

 without the shadow of a cause, and as composedly 

 as if they were returning from a festival. 



The Reis appeared to be quite at his ease, and 

 seemed to give himself very little trouble about 

 the boat, the direction of which was intrusted to 

 him. The anxiety I experienced was extreme ; 

 the disorders which raged on land prevented my 

 removing from my present situation, and the nu- 

 merous assemblage by whom I was surrounded in 

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