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who occupies the same post for European affairs, came 

 with him as interpreter. 



"At ten o'clock I go up to the citadel, where the 

 Viceroy keeps me to breakfast, the conversation turn- 

 ing upon what he calls i my affair.' It is arranged 

 that Mougel Bey shall take part in the exploring 

 which we propose to make with Linant. At first he 

 made some objections as to the difficulty of keeping 

 two engineers of one mind, but at last he agreed to 

 my proposal, by which I set considerable store. Upon 

 my return to Setti-Zeneb I receive a visit from 

 Achmet Pasha, whom I like more each time I see him. 

 Among other visitors was Arnaud Bey, who had just 

 travelled 1,200 leagues up the Nile, or 300 further 

 than anyone else. He gives us some very interesting 

 details of the expedition, which had been organised 

 by Mehemet Ali, who had given him a corps of 800 

 men. He could not go any further owing to the 

 mutinous attitude of some of the officers. All the 

 expenses had been defrayed by elephants' tusks, 

 which they brought back by water. Arnaud Bey 

 spoke in high terms of the treatment which he had 

 met with from the negro populations he had tra- 

 versed, and which had never before seen boats with 

 sails. None of his men had been killed by the 

 natives. Eemounting towards the Equator, to which 

 he got within two degrees, the natives told him that 

 navigation was possible up to the fourth degree 

 beyond the Equator, that is to say for another 150 

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