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indifferent weather, clear throughout the day, exceed- 
ingly cold in the night and morning } but, being bet- 
ter cloathed, better fed than in the defert, and under 
cover, we were not fo fenfible of it, though the ther- 
mometer fhewed the fame degrees. Above all, we hada 
good decent provifion of brandy on board, part of which I 
had procured from the Aga, part from the Schourbatchie — 
my landlord, neither of whom knew the other had given 
me any, and both of them pretended to each other, and 
to the world, that they never tafted fermented liquors of aes : 
kind, nor kept them 1 in their cuftody. 
_Tuap given to each of my fervants, to Soliman and to 
the Greeks likewife,a common blanket called a barracan, 
of the warmeft and coarfeft kind, with a waiftcoat and 
wowfers of the fame, and all of us, I believe, had configned 
tothe Nile the clothes in which we paffed the defert. The _ 
meannefs of our appearance did not at all fhock us, fince 
nothing contributes more to fafety in a country like this. 
1 paffed Shekh Nimmer not without regret, but it was night, i. 
and I was very il, 
On the 19th we arrived at How, where the intermitting: 
fever, which I had at Syene, again returned, with unufual 
violence, and, what was moft unlucky, my ftock of bark was 
almoft exhaufted, and the Rais had bufinefs that obliged 
him to lie by fora day. As we were within a fmall diftance 
of Furfhout, I difpatched one of the Barbarins, with a 
camel, to the fathers at the monaftery of Furfhout inform- 
ing them of my arrival and very bad ftate of health, and 
requefling them to fend me fome wheat bread, as mine was 
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