70 GRAND CAIRO. 
CHAP, scripts, by the booksellers in Cciiro and Constan- 
i tinople. Perhaps the Reis did not choose, at 
this time, to make our countrymen acquainted 
with his sentiments upon such subjects. He 
told us, he found every thing very good m 
London, especially veal and cider; but that 
nothing was cheap. We delivered to him a 
letter from the Capudan Pasha; and he promised 
to render to us all the service in his power. 
'Qis, janissaries conducted us, at our request, to 
Colonel HoUoway, who, with Major Hope, and 
other officers of the artillery, were quartered in 
House of a large building, where the French Members of 
instituh\" the Institute held their sittings, during the time 
they were in possession of Cairo. Having pre- 
sented our letters to the Colonel, we were re- 
ceived by him with great politeness, and were 
afterwards indebted to him for every civility 
it was in his power to shew to us. He intro- 
duced us to Dr. fVittman, who has since pub- 
lished an account of his travels; and undertook 
to forward our letters to England, and to pre- 
sent us to the Grand Plzir. In the court be- 
longing to the house where these officers resided, 
were several interesting articles of antiquity, 
which had been abandoned by the French, upon 
the surrender of the city. Among them, was 
the stele of porphyry which is now in the 
