propensities of which he is so often accused, has yet added to this record ,—Expelled 
from the land of Egypt by an English army, September 2d, 1801 ? 
Warburton tells an amusing story of Stephens, the American traveller, whose 
appreciation of the perfections of his own country is considerably at issue with that 
of any other, giving us an imposing account of the feeling with which he carved his 
name on the same slab with that of Desaix. A French traveller followed, who, 
thinking it bad taste even in an American thus to intrude his name, carefully eradicated 
it, and inserted, “La page de l’histoire ne doit pas etre salie.” 
Roberts’s Journal. Warburton’s Orescent and the Cross. 
ABYSSINIAN SLAVES AT KORTI. 
These slaves were seen by Mr. Roberts on their way to the market at Cairo. They 
had been landed to rest and refresh themselves, and to prepare dourra, or Indian corn, 
for bread: the girl in the foreground is engaged in this occupation. The corn is 
simply ground by being rubbed between two stones; it is afterwards either made 
into bread, or soaked in water, like oatmeal, and drunk. “ The group,” Mr. Roberts 
says, “ was composed of boys and young women; some of the slaves appeared to be 
sickly, two were lying apart and seemed to be in the last stage of consumption: the 
sight was a very melancholy one. The slave-merchants were rather good-looking 
Nubians, except one, who was brutal in his manners and appearance, and, when I 
saw him, intoxicated,— a vice rarely seen in this country. He was not black, but 
his looks were sinister, and it would be difficult to find a character more decidedly 
marked as fitted for his calling, than I observed in the countenance of this fellow: 
he persisted in following us about, in expectation that we should purchase.” 
The female slaves from Abyssinia are much prized in Egypt for their gentleness 
and intelligence; they have beautiful eyes and rich black tresses, and their complexion 
is a clear brown. They often suffer much in the passage of the desert and the voyage 
down the Nile, but, once sold and established, they are clothed and fed, and treated 
with care and kindness. They form the hareem of the moderately rich or middle 
classes, and the general maternity of the citizens of Lower Egypt are the Abyssinian 
women, who have been thus conveyed to a market and a home. 
Roberts’s Journal. 
Warburton. 
