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Rossetta not having, like Alexandria, an imme- 

 diate communication with the sea, yon do not find 

 it swarming with those multitudes of foreigners, of 

 adventurers, of dangerous men, whose agitation, 

 tumult, and uproar are their clement, and which 

 render a residence at the city last named, so very 

 disagreeable. Remote from the bustle of sea-ports, 

 and from the frequent political convulsions of 

 Cairo, its inhabitants were abundantly peaceable. 

 Not that the European was there secured entirely 

 from insult : he had, at times, disagreeable cir- 

 cumstances to encounter, but they were slight in 

 comparison with those which persecuted him at 

 Alexandria, and which absolutely oppressed him at 

 Cairo. The silly and ridiculous pride which per- 

 suades the Mahometans that they alone of man- 

 kind are adopted by the Deity, that they are the 

 only persons to whom he ought to open his bo- 

 som, a pride which the doctors of the law or the 

 priests, the vainest and most intolerant of all men, 

 took great care to foment, was the principal source 

 of those unpleasant attacks. The Turk describes 

 the European by no other epithet than that of infi- 

 del ; the Egyptian Mussulman, still coarser, treats 

 him merely as a dog. With him, Christian and dog 

 were two terms so exactly synonimous, and in such 

 frequent use, that no attention was paid to the dif- 

 ference, and that they were indiscriminately em- 

 ployed by persons who had no intention to offer an 



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