APPENDIX, No. IV. 485 
Had Savary given the Arabic name of this curious bird, that 
fups on fo many different difhes, the extent of his own error 
might have been exadly known, by comparing the bird he 
means with the figure of the real Ibis, Others are contented 
with feeing one Ibis, but they have come in covies to welcome 
M. Savary, and he compliments them with a volley of fmall 
fhot. S. fhould have known, that birds accuftomed to feed on 
fifh, do not commonly eat reptiles, and vice verfa. 
Vol. ii. p. 59. The Ruin at Achmunein had before been 
fully defcribed by Pococke ; Norden paffed it in the night, and 
therefore faw it not. Bruce has alfo mentioned it. What is 
defcribed as gilding, however, on this and other monuments, I 
take to be yellow colour, never having feen any inftances of 
gilding in the antient remains of Egypt. It might be curious 
to inquire of what materials thefe colours were compofed, 
which have thus defied the ravages of time. 
Vol. iii. p. 33. Savary fpeaks of the military corps of 
Aflabs as ftill in being, but fome years before his time that body 
had been diffolved, and no longer exifted. 
The Janizaries are ftill inrolled, to the number of about 
fourteen thoufand ; but the greater part of them are peaceable 
citizens, who never handle either fword or mufket. From 
them are appointed the gate-keepers, a fmall garrifon in the 
caftle, &c. &c. 
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