6o2 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



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CHAP. Xllf. 



Kind reception at A[fouan — Arrival at Cairo — Tran/a&tons with the 

 Bey there — Land at Marfeilks, 



'\%T I T H O U T congratulating one another on their 

 ▼ ▼ efcape and fafe arrival, as they had the night before 

 at Abou Seielat, my companions with one accord ran to the 

 Nile to drink ; though they had already feen, in the courfe 

 of the journey^two or three tragical inftanees, the confe- 

 quences of intemperance in drinking water. I fat myfelf 

 down under the fhade of the palm-trees, to recolle<5t my- 

 felf. It was very hot, and I fell into a profound fleep. But 

 Hagi Ifmael, who was neither fleepy nor thirfly, but ex- 

 ceedingly himgry, had gone into the town in fearch of 

 fomebody that would give him food. He was not gone far 

 before his green turban and ragged appearance ftruck fome 

 brethren janizaries, who met him ; one of whom afkcd him 

 the reafon of his being there, and whence he came? Ifmael, 

 in a violent paliion, and broken Arabic, faid, that he was a 

 1 janizary 



