CHAPTER ir. 
Mr, LedyardV Arrival at Cairo, His Remarks on the In-' 
habitants^ — His Death and CharaBer^ 
Mr. Led YARD took his departure from London on the 30th 
of June, 1788; and after a journey of fix and thirty days, feven 
of which were confumed at Paris, and two at Marfeilles, arrived 
in the city of Alexandria. 
His Letters of Recommendation to the Britifli Conful fecured 
him from the embarraffments that the want of inns would 
otherwife 
