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TRAVELS IN UPPER,
CHAP. XXXIV.
Generous actions of certain Mamelucs—Their wives,
warlike qualities, and cavalry—Egyptian and
Arabian horses—Audience of the Pacini—-Castle
of Cairo—Joseph's well-—Moors.
It has been seen that two beys of the Mamcluc
race have exhibited gleams of bold conceptions,
some qualities fitting them for able governors, good
dispositions, and particularly greatness of mind.
These virtues were not so rare as might be sup-
posed among a number of strangers brought from
all parts, and assembled in Cairo to reign there
as masters. A warlike education, with the exam-
ple of pomp and prodigalily placed before their
eyes, unfolded and enlarged the few good pro-
pensities with which they were endowed by nature:
while die total absence of every other species of
tuition, want of learning, profound ignorance of
the fundamental principles of all society, gross
fanaticism inspired by the new religion which
they were forced to embrace, a life wholly mili-
tary, and the examples of injustice, cruelty, and
treachery, given them by their patrons, rendered
them in reality a herd of barbarians. Hence the
astonishment and even admiration excited by the
noble
TRAVELS IN UPPER,
CHAP. XXXIV.
Generous actions of certain Mamelucs—Their wives,
warlike qualities, and cavalry—Egyptian and
Arabian horses—Audience of the Pacini—-Castle
of Cairo—Joseph's well-—Moors.
It has been seen that two beys of the Mamcluc
race have exhibited gleams of bold conceptions,
some qualities fitting them for able governors, good
dispositions, and particularly greatness of mind.
These virtues were not so rare as might be sup-
posed among a number of strangers brought from
all parts, and assembled in Cairo to reign there
as masters. A warlike education, with the exam-
ple of pomp and prodigalily placed before their
eyes, unfolded and enlarged the few good pro-
pensities with which they were endowed by nature:
while die total absence of every other species of
tuition, want of learning, profound ignorance of
the fundamental principles of all society, gross
fanaticism inspired by the new religion which
they were forced to embrace, a life wholly mili-
tary, and the examples of injustice, cruelty, and
treachery, given them by their patrons, rendered
them in reality a herd of barbarians. Hence the
astonishment and even admiration excited by the
noble