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the term dog which they bestow on the nations of
Europe : very different in this, as well as in every
other respect, from the ancient Egyptians, who
rendered a particular worship, and the highest ho-
nours, among other animals, to the most sagacious
of all, to that one whose excellent qualities make
him most worthy of human attentions *.
From one of those inconceivable contradictions,
prevalent particularly among Mussulmans, there
are few cities in the world which contain so many
dogs as those of Egypt, or, at least, there is no one
which has the appearance of containing more, be-
cause they are there constantly assembled in the
streets, their only habitation. There they have no
other supplies of food but what they can pick up at
the doors of houses, or scramble for by raking into
filth and garbage. The females drop their young
at the corner of some retired and unfrequented
street; for a disciple of Mahomet would not per-
mit them to approach his habitation. Continually
exposed to the cruel treatment of the populace;
massacred sometimes, without mercy, by an armed
mob ; subjected to all the inclemency of the ele-
ments; hardly finding the means of supporting a
wretched existence ; meagre, irritated to madness,
frequently eaten up of a mange which degenerates
* The worship of the clog was universally diffused over Egypt.
sometimes
TRAVELS IN UPPER
the term dog which they bestow on the nations of
Europe : very different in this, as well as in every
other respect, from the ancient Egyptians, who
rendered a particular worship, and the highest ho-
nours, among other animals, to the most sagacious
of all, to that one whose excellent qualities make
him most worthy of human attentions *.
From one of those inconceivable contradictions,
prevalent particularly among Mussulmans, there
are few cities in the world which contain so many
dogs as those of Egypt, or, at least, there is no one
which has the appearance of containing more, be-
cause they are there constantly assembled in the
streets, their only habitation. There they have no
other supplies of food but what they can pick up at
the doors of houses, or scramble for by raking into
filth and garbage. The females drop their young
at the corner of some retired and unfrequented
street; for a disciple of Mahomet would not per-
mit them to approach his habitation. Continually
exposed to the cruel treatment of the populace;
massacred sometimes, without mercy, by an armed
mob ; subjected to all the inclemency of the ele-
ments; hardly finding the means of supporting a
wretched existence ; meagre, irritated to madness,
frequently eaten up of a mange which degenerates
* The worship of the clog was universally diffused over Egypt.
sometimes