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credit equal to thefe, but not fo rich; it is Pini and Co,. 
It will always be your intereft, if more than one {hip comes," 
to addrefs yourfelves to feparate houfes, for by this means. 
you will be fooner difpatched, have more friends,. se: nica 
~ and more intetligence. / 
“ As I have no-view in this but youradvantage, fo I will’ 
not take upon myfelf toanfwer for any confequences. You. 
know what Turks are. I never faw one of them to be: 
trufted in money affairs. You muft keep: your eyes open,. 
and deal for ready money. You will, however, be much fa- 
fer, be better ufed, have better markets, and be fooner dif- 
patched ;.and if any of your cargo remains unfold, you may: 
leave it here in great fecurity, with a certainty ofits felling 
in winter; and the money will be either remitted to: 
England, or ready for you here at your. return,.as you di-- 
rect.. 
“Cairo is in lat. 30° 2’ 45”5 two days anda Half eafy 
journey from it is Suez, in lat. 29° ¢7/15”.. Ras Mahomet,. 
the Cape:that forms-the: eaftern {hore of the entrance into: 
the Gulf of Suez, is in lat. 27° 54’ 10”. You fhould make 
this Cape while it bears N. E. or N. E. by E. at: fartheft, 
for farther eaft ‘s the entrance of a gulf which has often 
been miftaken for that of'Suez. Laftly, Tor, the firft: inha- 
bited place after paffing the Cape, is in Jat. 28° 12’ 4”; here: 
you: may have provifions, water, and a. pilot. | 
“- Tere are no Englith merchants at’ Cairo; but there: 
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comes, from time to time, a wandering fort of fharpers: 
under that name, either. from Mahon, the Greek iflands, or _ 
2 ; Leghorn 5; 
