APPENDIX, No. V. 489 
T*. 475. The writer fays every Mamluk is bought ; and 
yet there are Frenchmen among them. — Where are Frenchmen 
fold ? It is probable no Frenchman would be found among 
them, unlefs perhaps two or three individuals who might have 
embraced Mohammedifm, but who certainly never were fold. 
In an engagement, I believe, no one has more than a fingle 
pieton with him ; for thofe inconfiderable officers, who are 
attended on ordinary occafions by numerous followers, when 
in the field, avoid as much as poffible any fhew of pre- 
eminence, which would only expofe their perfons to greater 
danger. 
'P. 476. A Mamluk has rarely more than one fufil, which 
he difcharges once, and then gives to his pieton, to reload if 
he find opportunity. — One pair of piftols is attached to the 
body, and the fecond pair is carried in holfters, never about 
the body. — Of the arrows in a quiver I have no knowlege ; 
occafionally in engaging the Bedouins the Mamluks ufe a light 
fpear, about fix feet long, or a mifdrak^ which is often ten or 
twelve feet. — The former is thrown, the latter never difcharged 
from the hand. But thefe are by no means part of their com- 
mon arms. — One fabre is ufed moft adroitly and with extraor- 
dinary elfedt, by every expert horfeman, but never two — This 
part of the officer's account feems taken from the mouth of 
fome Egyptian peafant, who, as ufual, exaggerated. 
P. 476. From Alexandria to the mouth of the Nile Is 
not twenty leagues, but from twelve to fifteen. — The anecdote 
of the fliech in the fame page appears authentic, 
3 R P. 479. 
