D'Athanasi, Giovanni; Salt, Henry [Hrsg.]: A brief account of the researches and discoveries in Upper Egypt: To which is added a detailed catalogue of Mr. Salts collection of Egyptian antiquities (London, 1836)

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of a town in which there were so many thousand
inhabitants.

After residing about a twelvemonth with my
father, I went in company with a merchant to
Ennos, where I remained two years, during which
time I regularly attended a school; but I did not
learn much. At the end of the above period I
returned to Alexandria, and from thence to Cairo,
where I had the happiness of embracing my
mother and my brothers, whom my father had
sent for to join him there, not being able to go to
Lemnos himself on account of his commercial
engagements.

I remained with my family until the year 1813.
In the early part of March in that year I went
out to service in the establishment of Colonel
Missett, the Consul-General of Great Britain,
who was then at Cairo ; and on the 13th of that
month I accompanied that gentleman to Alex-
andria, where Mr. Salt, the new Consul-General
had just arrived.

Colonel Missett being about to remove to Italy
in order to take the baths at Pisa, enquired of me
with paternal kindness whether I chose to accom-
pany him to Europe or preferred returning to
Cairo with Mr. Salt. I reflected upon the matter

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