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 636 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER

credit equal to thefe, but not fo rich ; it is Pini and Co. It will always be your intereft, if more than one lliip comes, to addrefs yourfelves to feparate houfes, for by this means you will be fooner difpatched, have more friends, lefs rifk,. and more intelligence.

" As I have no view in this but your advantage, fo I wiU not take upon myfclf toanfwer for any confequences. You^ know what Turks are. I never faw one of them to be trufted in money affairs. You mufl keep your eyes open, and deal for ready money. You will, however, be much fa- fer, be better ufed, have better markets, and be fooner dif- patched ; and if any of your cargo remains unfold, you may leave it here in great fecurity, with a certainty'of its felling in winter; and the money will be either remitted to- England, or ready for you here at your return, as you di^ re6t.

" Cairo is in lat. 30* 2' 45"; two days and a half eafy- journey from it is Suez, in lat. 29° 57' 15". Ras Mahomet, the Cape that forms the eaftern fliore of the entrance into the Gulf of Suez, is in lat. 27° 54' 10". You fhould make this Cape while it bears N. E. or N. E. by E. at farthell, for farther call: is the entrance of a gulf which has often been miflakcn for that of Suez. Laflly, Tor, the firll inha- bited place after paffing the Cape, is in lat. 28' 12' 4" ; here you may have provifions, water, and a pilot.

" There are no Englifh merchants at Cairo ; but there

comes, from time to time, a wandering fort of (harpers

under that name, cither from Mahon, the Greek iflands, or

3 Leghorn ;