i 3 S TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



We were well received by the governor of Luxor, who-* 

 was alfo a believer in judicial ailrology. Having made him 

 a fmall prefent, he furnifhed us with provisions,- and, among 

 feveral other articles, fome brown fugar ; and as we had 

 i'een limes and lemons in great perfection at Thebes, we 

 were refolved to refrefh ourfelves with fome punch, in re- 

 membrance of Old England. But, after what had happen- 

 ed the night before, none of our people chofe to run the rifk- 

 of meeting the Troglodytes. We therefore procured a fer- 

 vant of the governor's of the town, to mount upon his goat- 

 fkin filled with wind, and float down the ftream from Luxor' 

 to El Gournie, to bring us a fupply of thefe, which he foon 

 after did. 



He informed us, that the people in the caves had, early 

 in the morning, made a defcent upon the townfmen, with 

 a view to plunder our boat; that feveral of them had been 

 wounded the night before, and they threatened to purfue 

 us to Syene. The fervant did all he could to frighten them,, 

 by faying that his mailer's intention was to pafs over with- 

 troops, and exterminate them, as Ofman Bey of Girge had" 

 before done, and we were to affifl him with our fire-arms. — - 

 After this we heard no more of them.. 



Luxor, and Carnac, which is a mile and a quarter below- 

 it, are by far the largefl and moil magnificent fcenes of ruins 

 in Egypt, much more extenfive and ftupendous than thofer 

 of Thebes and Dendera put together. 



There are two obelifks here of great beauty, and in good* 

 prefervation, they are lefs than thofe at Rome, but not at' 

 all mutilated. The pavement,, which is made to receive 



the 



