1 1 4 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



CHAP. VI. 



Arrive at FurJJjout — Adventure of Friar Chrifiopher — Vifit Thebes — - 

 Luxor and Camac — Large Ruins at Edfu and Efhe Proceed on our 



Voyage. 



WE arrived happily at Furfliout that fame forenoon, and 

 went to the convent of Italian Friars, who, like thofe 

 of Achmim, are of the order of the reformed Francifcans, 

 of whofe minion I fliall fpeak at large in the fequel. 



We were received more kindly here than at Achmim ; 

 but Padre Antonio, fuperior of that laft convent, upon which 

 this of Furfliout alfo depends, following us, our good recep- 

 tion fuffered a fmall abatement. In fhort, the good Friars 

 would not let us buy meat, becaufc they faid it would be a 

 Jhame and reproach to them; and they would not give us any, 

 for fear that mould be a reproach to them Iikewife, if it was 

 told in Europe they lived welL 



After fome time I took the liberty of providing for my- 

 felf, to which they fubmitted with chriftian patience. Yet 

 thefe convents were founded exprefsly with a view, and 

 from a ncceffity of providing for travellers between Egypt 

 and Ethiopia, and we were flric"lly intitled to that enter- 

 tainment. 



