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618 indifferent weather, clear throughout the day, exceedingly cold in the night and morning; but, being better cloathed, better fed than in the desert, and under cover, we were not so enible of it, though the thermometer hewed the ame degrees. Above all, we had a good decent proviion of brandy on board, part of which I had procured from the Aga, part from the Schourbatchie my landlord, neither of whom knew the other had given me any, and both of them pretended to each other, and to the world, that they never tated fermented liquors of any kind, nor kept them in their cutody.

I given to each of my servants, to Soliman and to the Greeks likewise, a common blanket called a barracan, of the warmest and coarsest kind, with a waitcoat and trowsers of the same, and all of us, I believe, had consigned to the Nile the clothes in which we paed the deert. The meannes of our appearance did not at all hock us, ince nothing contributes more to afety in a country like this. I paed Shekh Nimmer not without regret, but it was night, and I was very ill.

the 19th we arrived at How, where the intermitting fever, which I had at Syene, again returned, with unuual violence, and, what was mot unlucky, my stock of bark was almot exhauted, and the Rais had buines that obliged him to lie by for a day. As we were within a mall distance of Furhout, I dispatched one of the Barbarins, with a camel, to the fathers at the monatery of Furshout informing them of my arrival and very bad tate of health, and requeting them to end me ome wheat bread, as mine was all