D'Athanasi, Giovanni; Salt, Henry [Editor]: 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)

QUARANTINE AT SUBRA.

which we speedily entered under a salute of
twenty-one guns.

After the usual compliments had passed, we
resumed our journey, and at the end of eight
days reached Subra, where Mohammed Ali had
instituted a quarantine on account of the plague,

which had broke out with such vigour that

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upwards of six hundred men a day fell under it.
Mr. Salt ordered me to go and seek Mr. Bogoz,
the chief interpreter of his highness, and to tell
him to make the Consul-General's compliments to
his master;—which mission I executed with every
possible precaution not to come in contact with
any person. Mr. Bogoz went into the garden
where his highness was, and having announced to
him the arrival of his friend the Consul-General
of Great Britain, communicated to him the
complimentary message I had given him. At the
expiration of about a quarter of an hour the
interpreter returned to me with the counter-
salutations of his master, and told me that his
highness's house at Boulak was at our service for
the purpose of performing quarantine, adding that
we should be better accommodated when we got
into the town. I lost no time in reporting to
Mr. Salt all that the interpreter had told me.