^jS travels in upper 



the arch which they make it describe, it empties it- 

 self into the furrow prepared to receive and con- 

 duct it. 



The passage from Beissoiis to Rosseita was not 

 long; we arrived there on the 7th, at six o'clock 

 in the morning. I found again the persons who 

 had shewn me so much friendship, during my for- 

 mer residence in that city, but none of the animals 

 which I had left there were alive. I was informed 

 that they had all perished several days before my 

 arrival, excepting one antelope, which seemed to 

 have escaped solely to enable them to exact the 

 amount of the hire of the place where these animals 

 had been shut up, as it was necessary that they 

 should have died but a little before, in order that it 

 might be in their power to make me pay for the 

 expense of feeding them. 



Some time after my departure from Rossetta, 

 the consul, verbose polite attention to me was uni- 

 form, had been attacked on his return from Alex- 

 andria by the Bedouins. They were not content 

 with plundering him ; they offered violence be- 

 sides, and more than once threatened to murder 

 him. They kept him till the evening, as well as 

 his servant, stretched upon the sand, and exposed 

 to the scorching heat of day. It was suspected that 

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