i 7 6 RECOLLECTIONS Of FORTY YEARS. 



is a very good specimen of the cunning and greedy 

 Arab, such as Europeans are familiar with. He had 

 met Clot-Bey in the streets of Alexandria, had made 

 out that he had formerly been under his treatment, 

 and had declared his intention of serving him in 

 future. In this way he had joined the camp, with 

 the new master to whom he had, so to speak, attached 

 himself by force. As soon as he saw me, he found 

 that I was the most influential person in the camp, so 

 he transferred his attentions to me, telling me that < I 

 was in his eye ' and that he had become attached to 

 me, and would not leave me while I was in Egypt. 

 This sudden change of views, which I communicated 

 to my companion, was not calculated to give me a 

 high opinion of Ibrahim's morality ; but he was so 

 careful in anticipating all our wants, from morning to 

 night, and so intelligent in his service, that we left 

 him to look after all the details of our encampment, to 

 strike the tent and have it loaded with the rest of the 

 luggage on the camels, and to have it got ready at the 

 next halting-place, where he was always waiting for us 

 with some fresh water and a cup of coffee/' 



" November 16, 1854. 



" Being the first to get up, I take advantage of this 

 to write and communicate the good news to France, 

 Zulfikar sending off the letters by a messenger on a 

 dromedary to Alexandria. After breakfasting with 

 the Yiceroy, a signal gun announces that the camp is 



