MEMOIR OF BRUCE. 
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features and appearance were so totally changed, 
that nohody in Cairo recognised him. He had not 
been master of a shirt for fourteen months; his 
waistcoat and trowsers were made of a hit of coarse 
hrown woollen blanket ; and another of the same 
description was wrapt round him. He wore enor- 
mous moustachios, hut had parted with his long 
Abyssinian beard at Furshoot. On his head was a 
thin white muslin cloth tied round a red Turkish 
cap ; he had neither stocldngs nor shoes ; his coarse 
woollen girdle was wrapt eight or ten times round 
his waist ; in the left side were stuck two English 
pistols mounted with silver, and in the right a 
common crooked Abyssinian knife with a handle of 
rhinoceros horn. 
After a short stay Bruce proceeded to Alexandria ; 
and embarking in a small vessel, he landed safely 
at Marseilles, after a tedious passage of three weeks. 
His fame, however, had travelled before him ; and no 
sooner had he reached the soil of France, than the 
Count do Buffon, M. Guys, and many other literati 
who had taken a particular interest in his journey, 
came to congratulate him on his return, and to 
listen to the recital of his adventures and discoveries. 
His reception at Paris was equally flattering; his 
travels became the subject of general conversation, 
and his society was courted by people of learning 
and rank. In July he repaired to Italy, being 
anxious on account of his health to try the baths of 
Poretta. 
Here he made a discovery that annoyed him 
