Sonnini de Manoncourt, Charles Nicolas Sigisbert: Travels in upper and lower Egypt (Band 2) (London, 1807)

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in another of these convents; since they extorted
from him thirty Venetian sequins, and the vicar
filched some money from him besides*.

During the five days we spent at Za'idi el
Baramous, every morning there was a very thick
fog, and one evening a little rain fell.

* Nouvellc Relation d'Egypte, p. 220.

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