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small figured velvets, the delicate and pleasing
workmanship of the artists of Lyons, surrounded
with a broad border of gold lace.
Sometimes, too, I have gone to the palace of
Mourat Bey with a young Frenchman who en-
joyed his confidence. The bey received me with
a. kind of civility, made me sit by him, and gave
me his own pipe to smoke, taking it from his
mouth to present it to me. This was an honour,
according to the customs of the country, which I
never received from any other person. He put a
hundred questions to me, each exceeding in silli-
ness that which preceded it, and all testimonies of
his extreme ignorance. At length, in conse-
quence of the account he had received from the
friend who introduced me, and the satisfaction I
gave him by my answers, he was resolved to have
me enter into his service, in the double capacity
of physician and engineer. He offered me a spa-
cious house at Cairo ; domestics of all sorts, as
servants and guards ; a daily allowance of provi-
sion far beyond my wants ; and a considerable sa-
lary. His offer might have seduced any one ig-
norant of the capricious humours of these un-
principled men, who to-day will load a man with
favours, and to-morrow order him suddenly into
irons, or perhaps to lose his hea^l.
Mourat3
small figured velvets, the delicate and pleasing
workmanship of the artists of Lyons, surrounded
with a broad border of gold lace.
Sometimes, too, I have gone to the palace of
Mourat Bey with a young Frenchman who en-
joyed his confidence. The bey received me with
a. kind of civility, made me sit by him, and gave
me his own pipe to smoke, taking it from his
mouth to present it to me. This was an honour,
according to the customs of the country, which I
never received from any other person. He put a
hundred questions to me, each exceeding in silli-
ness that which preceded it, and all testimonies of
his extreme ignorance. At length, in conse-
quence of the account he had received from the
friend who introduced me, and the satisfaction I
gave him by my answers, he was resolved to have
me enter into his service, in the double capacity
of physician and engineer. He offered me a spa-
cious house at Cairo ; domestics of all sorts, as
servants and guards ; a daily allowance of provi-
sion far beyond my wants ; and a considerable sa-
lary. His offer might have seduced any one ig-
norant of the capricious humours of these un-
principled men, who to-day will load a man with
favours, and to-morrow order him suddenly into
irons, or perhaps to lose his hea^l.
Mourat3