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AND LOWER EGYPT. 3OI
and these fiery coursers, obliged to walk with a
slow pace, indignantly champed their bits, while
their mouths were white with foam. Rounding in
a graceful arch their beautiful necks, they brought
their nostrils toward their chests, which they
moistened with the breath that impatience rolled
out in thick volumes, pawing the ground with
eagerness, and endeavouring by all the motions,
which the restraint in which they were held would
allow, to emancipate themselves from it, and sa-
tisfy their ardour, by indulging themselves in
greater quickness of pace, which habit had ren-
dered natural to them.
Janisaries mounted upon asses led the way.' The
French interpreters followed them, riding in the
same manner. Two lines of soldiers on foot en-
closed the cavalcade. Each of us was surrounded
by a froop of tall cavouass, holding in their hands
staves still taller. We marched in file; and to our
misfortune were dressed in the French fashion. All
the merchants of our nation, clothed iri the habits
of the East, followed on asses; and some foot-
soldiers brought up the rear. We had to traverse
a great part of the city, and proceed half a league
through the streets of Cairo, before we reached the
castle. The people, astonished at seeing France so
honoured, quitted their houses, and gathered about
us. Hootings, inftilts, with the epithets of Na-
zareatis
and these fiery coursers, obliged to walk with a
slow pace, indignantly champed their bits, while
their mouths were white with foam. Rounding in
a graceful arch their beautiful necks, they brought
their nostrils toward their chests, which they
moistened with the breath that impatience rolled
out in thick volumes, pawing the ground with
eagerness, and endeavouring by all the motions,
which the restraint in which they were held would
allow, to emancipate themselves from it, and sa-
tisfy their ardour, by indulging themselves in
greater quickness of pace, which habit had ren-
dered natural to them.
Janisaries mounted upon asses led the way.' The
French interpreters followed them, riding in the
same manner. Two lines of soldiers on foot en-
closed the cavalcade. Each of us was surrounded
by a froop of tall cavouass, holding in their hands
staves still taller. We marched in file; and to our
misfortune were dressed in the French fashion. All
the merchants of our nation, clothed iri the habits
of the East, followed on asses; and some foot-
soldiers brought up the rear. We had to traverse
a great part of the city, and proceed half a league
through the streets of Cairo, before we reached the
castle. The people, astonished at seeing France so
honoured, quitted their houses, and gathered about
us. Hootings, inftilts, with the epithets of Na-
zareatis