252 Travels into the hEw ant. Part I 
CHAP. LXXV. 
Of the Cofhtes. 
Cepbtcs' 'TP HE Cofkf J are Chriftians, but Jacobites, that is to fay, who follow the 
X. Herefie of Eutyches and Diofcorus, though fome however among them 
be Orthodox, and are called Melchites. They have a Patriarch in jHexandria, 
whofe Authority reaches very far, for he chufes one of his Clergy and 
fends him to be Patriarch to the Abyjfms in Mthiopa, as I faid before. The 
Cophtes arefo very ignorant and unpolilhed, that they have much ado to find a 
man among them fit to be their Patriarch, and fo in my time,the Patriarchate had 
been vacant for fome years ; the truth is, there was another reafon for it alfo, 
for they could not raife a fum of Money that muft be given to the Bafha, 
for the admiffion of every new Patriarch. They retain a great many Fa- 
bulous ftories taken out of Apocryphal Books, which they haVe ftill among 
them. We have no Hiftory of our Saviours life during his Minority, but 
they have a great many relations of it ^ for they fay, that every day an 
Angel brought him Victuals down from Heaven, and that he fpent his time, 
in making little Birds of Clay, which afterwards he breathed upon, and 
fo throwing them up into the Air, they flew away- They fay, that at our 
Lords Supper a roafted Cock was ferved up, and that then Judas being gone out 
to fell and betray our Lord, he commanded the Roafted Cock to rife and go 
zfter Judas', which the Cock did, and afterwards brought back word to our 
Lord, that Judas hdid fold him, and that therefore that Cock was admitted 
into Paradife. They fay Mafs in the Cophtick and Arabick Tongues, and 
when they ling the Pairion,and come to the place where it is faid that Judai 
betrayed our Lord, all the people cry Arfat, that is to fay. Horned Beaft, 
(Cuckold) in this manner avenging our Lord, by reviling of Judas. And 
when they read that St. Peter cut off the ear of the High-Prieft's Servant, 
all the People cry u4fia Boutros^ that is to fay, well fair you for that, Peter, 
as if they would encourage St. /'f'W by their Applaule. The Copkfj ferve for 
Clerks to the Divan of the Beys and Villages. 
CHAP. LXXVI. 
Of the Franks that live in ^gypt^ and the Ava- 
nies which are put ufon them, 
OftheFranks Here are Franks who live in feveral places of iy£gy^t, to wit, in Caire, 
ia Caire. JL Roffetto, and Alexandria; but the Confuls live at Caire^ becaufe the 
Bafha refides in that City ; they have Vice-Confuls in Rojfetto and Alexandria, 
Confuls of and fometimes in Damiette. There is in Caire a French Conful, a Venetian, 
an Englifli, and a Dutch -, all other Nations that Traffick in that Countrey, 
or in any part of theTurkifli Empire, go under the Banner of France, as the 
Âiejfmes, Ceneofe^ &c. and the French Conful proteds them. 
The Confuls in <iy^gypt have from the Grand Signior a yearly Penfion of 
fix thoufand which amount to two hundred ; but the Conful 
of V '.nice, has only two thoufand Maidins, and yet is obliged to make a Prefent 
of about two thoufand Piaftres to every new Baflia, whereas the reft areexcufed 
for 
Franks at 
Caire, 
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