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COPTS.
the Copts as I have just stated. Some of those
who have Copt relations in the village of Nag-
gadt, which is entirely inhabited by the latter,
in order to avoid trouble and anxiety instruct
themselves in the science of the laws of the Koran,
become Cadis, and by this means succeed in
obtaining some little consequence and respect.
The real Copts live better than the true Arabs—
the reason of which is that being very industrious
and of a very fawning disposition, they deceive
the latter by all the artifices in their power. It is
really astonishing that throughout so many cen-
turies they have never experienced from the Arabs
the slightest ill-treatmenton the contrary, they
have always been protected by them, and are so
still; it is even by no means rare to see Arabs
come to the succour of a Copt who is illtreated
or insulted, and sometimes receive fatal wounds
in his cause.
The Arabs of Upper Egypt are not so inimical
to the Christian religion as those of Lower Egypt.
Far from persecuting the Christians they enter
without any scruple into their churches; some of
them even hold the saints in such veneration that
they unite with the Christians in commemorating
them.
COPTS.
the Copts as I have just stated. Some of those
who have Copt relations in the village of Nag-
gadt, which is entirely inhabited by the latter,
in order to avoid trouble and anxiety instruct
themselves in the science of the laws of the Koran,
become Cadis, and by this means succeed in
obtaining some little consequence and respect.
The real Copts live better than the true Arabs—
the reason of which is that being very industrious
and of a very fawning disposition, they deceive
the latter by all the artifices in their power. It is
really astonishing that throughout so many cen-
turies they have never experienced from the Arabs
the slightest ill-treatmenton the contrary, they
have always been protected by them, and are so
still; it is even by no means rare to see Arabs
come to the succour of a Copt who is illtreated
or insulted, and sometimes receive fatal wounds
in his cause.
The Arabs of Upper Egypt are not so inimical
to the Christian religion as those of Lower Egypt.
Far from persecuting the Christians they enter
without any scruple into their churches; some of
them even hold the saints in such veneration that
they unite with the Christians in commemorating
them.