i 3 8 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



We were well received by the governor of Luxor, who 

 was alfo a believer in judicial aftrology. Having made him 

 a fm'all prefent, he furnifhed us with provifions, and, among 

 feveral other articles, fome brown fugar ; and as we had 

 feen limes and lemons in great perfection at Thebes, we 

 were refolved to refrefh ourfelves with fome punch, in re- 

 membrance of Old England. But, after what had happen- 

 ed the night before, none of our people chofe to run the rifk 

 of meeting the Troglodytes. We therefore procured a fer- 

 vant of the governor's of the town, to mount upon his goat- 

 flcin filled with wind, and float down the ftream from Luxor 

 to El Gournie, to bring us a fupply of thefe, which he foon. 

 after did. 



He informed us, that the people in the caves had, early 

 in the morning, made a defcent upon the townfmen, with 

 a view to plunder our boat ; that feveral of them had been 

 wounded the night before, and they threatened to purfue 

 us to Syene. The fervant did all he could to frighten them, 

 by faying that his mailer's intention was to pafs over with 

 troops, and exterminate them, as Ofman Bey of Girge had 

 before done, and <we were to affift him with our fire-arms.- — - 

 After this we heard no more of them. 



Luxor, and Carnac, which is a mile and a quarter below 

 it, are by far the largeft and moll magnificent fcenes of ruins 

 in Egypt, much more extenfive and ftupendous than thofe 

 of Thebes and Dendera put together. 



There are twoobelifks here of great beauty, and in good 

 prefervation, they are lefs than thofe at Rome, but not at 

 all mutilated. The pavement, which is made to receive 



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