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CHAP. IV. 



leave Metrahenny—Come to the JJland Halouan—Falft Pyramid— 

 theft buildings end—Sugar Canes— Ruins of Antinopolis— Recep- 

 tion there. 



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UR wind was fair and frefh, rather a little on our 

 J beam ; when, in great fpirits, we hoifted our main and 

 fore-fails, leaving the point of Metrahenny, where our rea- 

 der may think we have too long detained him. We faw 

 the Pyramids of Saccara ftill S. W. of us ; feveral villages 

 on both fides of the river, but very poor and miferable ; 

 part of the ground on the eaft fide had been overflowed, 

 yet was not fown ; a proof of the oppreffion and diflrefs the 

 hufbandman fuffers in the neighbourhood of Cairo, by the 

 avarice and difagreement of the different officers of that 

 motely incomprehenfible government. 



After failing about two miles, we law three men fifh- 

 ing in a very extraordinary manner and fituation. They 

 were on a raft of palm branches, fupported on a float of 

 clay jars, made fail together. The form was like an Ifofceles 

 triangle, or face of a Pyramid; two men, each provided 

 with* calling net, flood at the two corners, and threw their 

 net into the flream together ; the third flood at the apex 

 of the triangle, or third corner, which was foremofl, and 

 rhrew his net the moment the other two drew theirs out 



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