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how I came to conduct myself like (he true be- 

 lievers. *' See," said tlicy among themselves, 

 *' how he walks, how he moves his hands, how he 

 *' eats, ScC. &c. VVcll, this is truly diverting !" 



At the end of a few days, Alarifelont was delivered 

 from the army of Cairo : I saw it embark on the 

 ISIile, in a disorder not easy to be described. The 

 bey who commanded was also charged, in his 

 march, with the subjugation of the Arabs, and the 

 ftdlahs, who had revolted, and refused to pay tri- 

 bute. The fury of this civil war, laying waste the 

 country, had diminished the sources of abundance: 

 provisions were no longer to be had at the mode- 

 rate price vvbicb was usually paid for them. The 

 poorer classes consumed bread of lentils, to v.'hich 

 they added a little barley ; its colour is a golden 

 yellow ; it is by no means bad, but it is heavy. 

 They call it hettau. Towards the cataracts of the 

 Nile there is scarce any other bread in common use, 

 because corn is very rare in tliis country, which is 

 the southern extremity of Egypt ; a little lower, 

 however, it is the Sustenance only of the poor. 



A multitude of little gray lizards * loved to ap- 

 proach the habitations of man. They are to be 

 seen, in a greater quantity than at any other sea- 



* Lezard gris. Lacepede, Hist. Nat. des Quadmp. ovipares. 

 '—Lacerta agills. Lin. 



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