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and fix thoufand patackes. He was no fooner furniflied with 
the money, than he d*ire£ted the Jews to be murdered, and his 
boats being ready, caufed their bodies to be packed in bafkets, 
and put into a fmall boat of his train. He then fet off for 
Kahira. On arriving at a village a little way up the river, the 
balkets were difembarked, and he ordered them to be fafely 
lodged till further directions fhould be given. It was fome 
time before the villagers took notice of the packages, or dared 
to open them in the abfence of the owner. But at length hav- 
ing obferved a quantity of blood near one of them, and enter- 
taining fufpicions, they opened the three, and news were imme- 
diately carried to Damiatt that the three Jews had been found 
in this condition. Thofe under whofe cognizance fuch acci- 
dents are, made a memorial of the whole affair to Murad Bey. 
He replied only by loud laughter, faying, " Are they not 
three dogs ? There is an end of them." 
It muft not be omitted that at Damiatt there is a confiderable 
manufactory of cotton and linen clothes, for the ufe of the baths 
and other domeftic purpofes. 
On the 19th of January 1797, I embarked on board a little 
merchant vefTel, trading to the coaft of Syria, and commanded 
by an Arab. Owing to the ftormy weather, and the unfkilful- 
nefs of the mariners, no fmall danger was incurred in the voyage, 
and we were conftrained to throw overboard a part of the 
cargo, which confifted in rice and raw hides. Another veflel, 
which failed in company, was loft that fame night. 
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