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24-2, TRAVELS IN UPPER
insult. Europeans, in the usual dress of their
own country, were likewise exposed, at Rossetta,
to be hooted at, in the more populous quarters of
the town, and to be pursued with repeated shouts
of Nouzram, Naza?~ene. The Jews likewise under-
went there those petty persecutions, and, though
stationary inhabitants of the country, were much
worse treated in it than the Christians of Europe.
But that nation is composed of degraded indivi-
duals, and deserves to be despised, inasmuch, as,
insensible to contempt, to the disgrace accumula-
ted on them by wave upon wave, they suffered
themselves, if I may use the expression, to be de-
luged with it, provided you left them the facility of
glutting their vile and insatiable thirst of gold.
Habited in the oriental style, they were obliged,
in Egypt, to wear a head-dress, and to be shod, in
a peculiar and appropriate manner; but what prin-
cipally distinguished them, was the tufts of hair,
or of beard, which they were forced to let grow, and
to keep up, close by the ear, on both sides of the
face. Most of the merchants were Turks or Sy-
rians ; there were some likewise from Barbary.
The GopHts, that degenerate race, descended from
the ancient Egyptians, resided there in consider-
able numbers. Some Arabs too were domesticated
in that city, and the plains adjacent were inhabit-
ed and cultivated by the fellahs ; a term which,
in Egypt, conveys an idea of contempt, as in an-
cient
insult. Europeans, in the usual dress of their
own country, were likewise exposed, at Rossetta,
to be hooted at, in the more populous quarters of
the town, and to be pursued with repeated shouts
of Nouzram, Naza?~ene. The Jews likewise under-
went there those petty persecutions, and, though
stationary inhabitants of the country, were much
worse treated in it than the Christians of Europe.
But that nation is composed of degraded indivi-
duals, and deserves to be despised, inasmuch, as,
insensible to contempt, to the disgrace accumula-
ted on them by wave upon wave, they suffered
themselves, if I may use the expression, to be de-
luged with it, provided you left them the facility of
glutting their vile and insatiable thirst of gold.
Habited in the oriental style, they were obliged,
in Egypt, to wear a head-dress, and to be shod, in
a peculiar and appropriate manner; but what prin-
cipally distinguished them, was the tufts of hair,
or of beard, which they were forced to let grow, and
to keep up, close by the ear, on both sides of the
face. Most of the merchants were Turks or Sy-
rians ; there were some likewise from Barbary.
The GopHts, that degenerate race, descended from
the ancient Egyptians, resided there in consider-
able numbers. Some Arabs too were domesticated
in that city, and the plains adjacent were inhabit-
ed and cultivated by the fellahs ; a term which,
in Egypt, conveys an idea of contempt, as in an-
cient