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of Shekh Hamam, the great Arab, governor of Upper Egypt^, 

 he kept all the people on that ilde of the river in their alle- 

 giance to Ali Bey. 



I had feen him at Cairo, and Rifk had fpoken to him to* 

 do me fervice if he met with me, which he promifed. I 

 called at Melawe to complain of our treatment at Shekh. 

 Abade, and fee if I could engage him, as he had nothing elfe 

 to employ him, to pay a vilit to my friends at that inhofpi'- 

 table place. This I was told he would do upon the flight- 

 ell intimation. He, unfortunately, however, happened- to 

 be out upon fome party ; but I was lucky in getting an old ; 

 Greek, a fervant of his, who knew I was a friend, both to. 

 the Bey and to his Patriarch*. 



He brought me about a gallon of brandy, and a jar of Ie=- 

 mons and oranges, preferved in honey ; both very agreea- 

 ble. He brought likewife a lamb, and fome garden-fluffs. 

 Among the fweetmeats was fome horfe-raddifh preferved" 

 like ginger, which certainly, though it might be whole- 

 fome, was the very worfl fluff ever I tafted. I gave a good 

 fquare piece of it, well wrapt in honey, to the Rais, who 

 coughed and fpit half an hour after, crying he was poi- 

 foned. 



I saw he did not wifh me to flay at Melawe, as he was 

 afraid of the Bey's troops, that they might engage him in 

 their fervice to carry them down, fo went away with great 

 good will, happy in the acquifition of the brandy, declaring 

 he would carry fail as long as the wind held. 



