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^ a Ve of hunting only, and he killed above twenty 
within two days. 
The Arabs and Egyptian peafants are the only 
People that don’t difturb thefe creatures, which are 
Perfecuted in all other parts of the world. Mr, 
barton, the Englifh Conful at Cairo, told me that 
Counfellor Carlefon, during his ft ay in Egypt, had 
^ere ftiot the firft hare that had been feen by the 
pranks in that country. Before that time it was 
Scarcely known that this creature was to be found in 
^gypt, at leaft not to the Europeans, and yet lefs 
t0 the inhabitants of Cairo, who neither admire the 
^eat, nor fuch a manner of hunting. On a little 
jnand near this place, the French have introduced 
Pares for the pleafure of hunting ; and I was in- 
0l ’med, that they had increafed remarkably; nor 
? re the Rock Goats (Capra Cervicapra Linn.)fcarce 
't 1 this part of the country. We faw their tracks in 
l le fine fand that covered the ground every where, 
? s plainly as we can difcern the tracks of different 
e afts in the new-fallen fnow in Sweden. If we 
la d now been furnilhed with a good long-barrel’d 
f T' n > a fwift Arabian horfe, and a ftaunch hound or 
<l hawk, we might have diverted ourfelves in a man- 
^ Gr truly royal, and which is here chiefly praftifed 
the Arabs of quality, who kill the Rock Goats with 
eir lances whilft running, never making ufe of fire 
fins. We at length came to the pit, fituated not 
° Ve a cannon Ihot from the village of Abufir, on 
andy plain, and refembling the fox-holes in 
'r Vc joen. We defcended with much danger and dif- 
°n a rope ladder we had brought along with 
fid f m 9 airo * -^• t the bottom of this pit, on the 
‘ e fronting the defart, was the entrance into the 
rrW° US Sepulchres of the Mummies. This lime-ftone 
ck ’ w kich I take to be the bafis of all Egypt, has 
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