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CHAP. XXII. 
FINAL DEPARTURE FROM KAHIRA, AND JOURNEY TO 
JERUSALEM. 
Voyage down the Nile to Dam'iatt — Vegetation — Papyrus — Com- 
merce — Cruelty of the Mamluk government — Voyage to Y'affe 
■ -—Defcription of Taffe — Kama — Jerufalem — Mendicants — » 
Tombs of the kings — Bethlehem — Agriculture — Naplofa — Sama- 
ria — Mount Tabor, 
tTAViNG engaged 2i canjia^ or fmall boat, to fail down the 
Nile from Kahira to Damiatt, I departed on Friday the 2d of 
December 1796. No occurrences worthy of particular com- 
memoration happened during this little voyage, but we pafTed 
feveral towns of confiderable note, among which may be men- 
tioned Manfura, remarkable for the defeat of St. Louis j a cir- 
cumftance preferved in the name which denotes, The place of 
viBory. Its condition is flourifhing, owing to its being a ftation 
on the road between Kahira and Damiatt; and it was then 
governed by a Cafhef deputed by Ibrahim Bey. The mofques 
amount to feven, which is the only circumftance I can olFer 
relative to its population, my ftay there having been only for a 
few hours. 
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