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who I am, and that I fhall not be troublefome to you; but 
I have a large fum of money, and do not chufe to have it 
_ known, Ihope, however, you willgive me your protection for 
the fake of my mafter,”——“ Indeed, friend, faid I, I have but 
feven fhillings in the whole world, and my cloaths, I be- 
lieve, are not worth much above that fum, and it is but a 
few days ago I was rejoicing at this as one of mygreateft 
fecurities. But fince Providence has, I hope for your good, 
thrown you and your money in my way, I will do the beft 
_ for you that is in my power, the fame as if it was my own.” 
On the roth of January 1773 we arrived at the convent 
of St George, all of us, as I thought, worfe in health and 
f{pirits than the day we came out of the defert. Nobody 
knew us at the convent, either by our face or our language, 
and it was by.a kind of force that we entered. I{mael, 
and the Copht went ftraight to the Bey, and !, with great 
_ difficulty, had intereft enough to fend to the patriarch and 
my merchants at Cairo, by employing the two only piaftres 
_ Thad in my pocket. If the capuchins at Furfhout received us 
coldly, thefe Caloyeros of St George kept us ftill at a greater 
diftance. It was half by violence that we got admittance 
into the convent. But this difficulty was to be but of fhort 
duration ; the morning was to end it, and give us a fight 
of our friends, and in the meantime we were to fleep 
foundly. We had nothing elfe to do, having no victuals, 
and the Caloyeros nothing to give us,even if they had been 
inclined, of which we had not feen yet the fmalleft to- 
ken. 
Tuis we thought, and this, in the common view of things, 
we were intitled to think; but we forgot that we were at 
Cairo, 
