Sd GRAND CAIRO. 
CHAP, their God Fishnu among the antient sculpture 
of the place' ; and were with difficulty restrained 
by their officers from assaulting the j^rabs, on 
account of the neglected state in which his 
temple, as thei/ supposed, was suffered to re- 
main. The officers of General Baircfs army 
spoke highly of the accuracy of Bruce s observa- 
tions ; and the General himself assured us, that 
he considered Great Britain as indebted to 
Bruce s valuable Chart of the Red Sea, for the 
safety of the transports employed in conveying 
the British forces. 
Exatnina- At this timc tlicrc happened to arrive in Cairo. 
tion of an 
Abyssinian au jibijssinian Dean, a negro, who had under- 
Bruce's ° takcu hls immense journey for religious pur- 
poses, and then resided in the monastery be- 
longing to the Propaganda Friars*. The author 
had been often engaged in noting, frmii this 
man's account of his country, some information 
respecting the state of Christianity in Abyssinia; 
and had purchased of him a manuscript copy of 
(1) It were to be wished that some officer belonging to the Indian 
arnny, who was present upon that occasion, would specify what parti- 
cular 6gure the Brahmins conceived to be a representation of Fishnu. 
(2) There are two monasteries in Cairo; one called the Terra SancUt, 
and the other the Proj,aganda, Monastery. 
