COMMUNICATIONS. 
dillance to Cairo is about a mile and a half, which we rode on 
alTes ; for the afs in this country is the GhriiHan's horfe, as lie 
is allowed no other animal to ride upon. Indeed I find the 
iituation of a Chriftian, or what they more commonly call here 
a Frank, to be very, very humiliating, ignominious, and dif- 
treffing : no one, by a combination of any caules, can reafoa 
down to fuch effeds as experience teaches us do exifl: here : 
it being impofiible to conceive, that the enmity I have alluded 
to could exift between men ;— or, in fact, that the ilune fpe- 
cies of beings, from any caufes whatever, fliould ever think and 
ad fo differently as the Eg}'ptians and the EngliHi do. 
I arrived at Cairo early in the morning, on the 19th of 
Auguft, and went to the houfe of the Venetian Coniul, Mr. 
Rofetti, Charge d' Affaires for the Englifli Conful here. 
" After dinner, not being able to find any other lodging, 
and receiving no very prefiing invitation from Mr. Rofetti, to 
lodge with him, I went to a convent. This convent confifts of 
Miffionaries fent by the Pope to propagate the Chrifiian Faith, 
or at leafl to give fiielter to Chriftians. The Chriftians here 
are principally from Damafcus : the convent is governed by the 
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