ro2 TRAVELS TO THE EAST, 
number of Capigi, or fubalterns, are conftantly in 
their Rations. There is no fixed number of Janif- 
faries : they come and go as they think proper. 
The foldiers think themfclves too good to be obliged 
to keep a drift guard. They find their account 
better by keeping in the city, where they have an 
opportunity of robbing and abufing whom they 
pleafe. This is the employment of thofe who 
ought to proteft people from violence and injuftice. 
On the 27th, I faw black flaves fold in the Aurel 
in Cairo; they were brought from Abyflmia, -/Ethi- 
opia and Dongala. The greateft part were women, 
almoft naked, having only their private parts con- 
cealed: they had their hair plaited in fmall locks, 
anointed with fome kind of greafe, and adorned with 
corals and coral beads, which hang in the nofe and 
ears. Ornaments are necefl'ary to all nations. 
On the 6th of December, advice came to Cairo, 
that the German Emperor’s Commiffary, Mr. Lauder, 
had returned to Egypt, which he had left two months 
before to travel to Smyrna. In the Archipelago 
he met with three of the Emperor’s ihips of war, 
bound for Alexandria, and with them returned. 
The fame day we heard that Captain Jacobfon, of 
Stockholm, had arrived at Alexandria from Leg- 
horn. He had failed from Alexandria two months 
before, and now returned with 27,000 Spanifh 
dollars, on account of the Jews in Leghorn, befides 
merchandize. 
Some days after we perceived that Ifmael Effendi, 
who commanded the caftle of Alexandria, was de- 
termined to raife the mob againll the Emperor s 
three ihips of war. A ftrange flag, and efpecially a 
black bird (the Imperial Eagle) in it, was iufEcier.t 
to give the Turks a fufpicion. 1 hey had fent to 
Cairo front Alexandria, to give notice to the Re- 
gency 
