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212 TRAVELS IN EGYPT, NUBIA,
and was nearly starved from agreeing to live in their
manner.
My firman was narrowly examined by the aga, whose
conduct seemed influenced by the suspicion of my being
a spy : this, indeed, was the general idea of the natives, and
even on board my rice-boat I was reproached by the rais for
using my telescope towards the walls of the town. After an
hour's deliberation in the divan I was permitted to leave it,
and retire to the consul's house, where I had the regret to
find my servant labouring under a violent degree of fever,
and every symptom I had before had an opportunity of ob-
serving of the plague. My feelings were excited by con-
sidering that the family with whom I had established myself
would probably fall a sacrifice to the disease ; and I did not
quite forget the danger to which I was myself exposed. I
had no time for deliberation, and therefore applied such
medicines as I thought would speedily give relief, and hap-
pily found that my alarm at plague was groundless; after
two days the fever left him, and I was able to think of
Mount Libanon. In the mean time, I took opportunities of
visiting the town, once celebrated for its science, its riches,
and its size*. It is still considerable, and was, till very
* See Pococke, p. 476, Pinkerton's collection. The city of Dcirutte is the
ancient Berytusf. Augustus, when he made it a colony, called it after the
t See Josephus.
and was nearly starved from agreeing to live in their
manner.
My firman was narrowly examined by the aga, whose
conduct seemed influenced by the suspicion of my being
a spy : this, indeed, was the general idea of the natives, and
even on board my rice-boat I was reproached by the rais for
using my telescope towards the walls of the town. After an
hour's deliberation in the divan I was permitted to leave it,
and retire to the consul's house, where I had the regret to
find my servant labouring under a violent degree of fever,
and every symptom I had before had an opportunity of ob-
serving of the plague. My feelings were excited by con-
sidering that the family with whom I had established myself
would probably fall a sacrifice to the disease ; and I did not
quite forget the danger to which I was myself exposed. I
had no time for deliberation, and therefore applied such
medicines as I thought would speedily give relief, and hap-
pily found that my alarm at plague was groundless; after
two days the fever left him, and I was able to think of
Mount Libanon. In the mean time, I took opportunities of
visiting the town, once celebrated for its science, its riches,
and its size*. It is still considerable, and was, till very
* See Pococke, p. 476, Pinkerton's collection. The city of Dcirutte is the
ancient Berytusf. Augustus, when he made it a colony, called it after the
t See Josephus.