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AND LOWER EGYPT. 12J
and detestable effect of abject superstition, they
have added the partial efforts of base cruelty, of
barbarous perfidy, to the impotent arms of the
most odious of rulers. Thus slavery is the lowest
degree of abasement to which man can sink, since
it .destroys and effaces the moral and intellectual
faculties, so as to induce the regret of itself.
A league to the east of Honeze is a small town,
called Saffrane, governed by a Kiaschef.
The districts through which our way led, che-
rished by nature, displayed the luxuriousness of an
easy and slight cultivation : their fertility would
render them an object of choice to the man desir-
ous of abundance; and to him who possesses a
mind sensible of nature's benefits, they afford the
most interesting and magnificent spectacle. But
we were on the borders of these favoured plains,
and approaching the desert. The village of Honeze
marked the line of separation between the most
lively vegetation and parched sterility, between
land fertilized by the overflowing of the Nile, and
sands moistened in vain by copious dews.
In the morning of the 6th of January we en-
tered one of those desolate portions of the globe,
one of those vast divisions between habitable lands,
which are the abode of perpetual barrenness and
burning
and detestable effect of abject superstition, they
have added the partial efforts of base cruelty, of
barbarous perfidy, to the impotent arms of the
most odious of rulers. Thus slavery is the lowest
degree of abasement to which man can sink, since
it .destroys and effaces the moral and intellectual
faculties, so as to induce the regret of itself.
A league to the east of Honeze is a small town,
called Saffrane, governed by a Kiaschef.
The districts through which our way led, che-
rished by nature, displayed the luxuriousness of an
easy and slight cultivation : their fertility would
render them an object of choice to the man desir-
ous of abundance; and to him who possesses a
mind sensible of nature's benefits, they afford the
most interesting and magnificent spectacle. But
we were on the borders of these favoured plains,
and approaching the desert. The village of Honeze
marked the line of separation between the most
lively vegetation and parched sterility, between
land fertilized by the overflowing of the Nile, and
sands moistened in vain by copious dews.
In the morning of the 6th of January we en-
tered one of those desolate portions of the globe,
one of those vast divisions between habitable lands,
which are the abode of perpetual barrenness and
burning