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AND LOWER EGYPT. 335
within three days, all the Nubians, otherwise called
Barberins, and other subjects of the petty king of
Sennaar, whom they might have in their employ,
and neither to take them again, nor any others,
on pain of forfeiting 300 livres, to be applied to
the redemption of poor slaves, &c.
One of these Berberies, who was very young,
and of an interesting countenance, frequented the
quarter inhabited by the French merchants. To
gain a few medins, he shewed a number of scor-
pions, which he carried under his cap, and handled
with impunity. He gave out, that he, as well as
his countrymen, possessed the secret of being se-
cure against the stings of these venomous insects ;
but this pretended secret, as he confessed to me,
consisted in the precaution of plucking out the
sting, with which the last joint of the scorpion's
tail is armed. The liveliness and native wit of
this young Nubian induced me to take him into
my service, but I was soon weary of him, and I
had reason to confess that Consul Maillct was not
much to blame for driving the men of that nation
from the houses of the French.
Plate XXIV. represents an ancient statue, which
I saw at Cairo, in the hands of an Italian monk,
of the congregation of [hepropaganda, who gave it
to M. Tott. This statue is of a white calcareous
3 stone,
within three days, all the Nubians, otherwise called
Barberins, and other subjects of the petty king of
Sennaar, whom they might have in their employ,
and neither to take them again, nor any others,
on pain of forfeiting 300 livres, to be applied to
the redemption of poor slaves, &c.
One of these Berberies, who was very young,
and of an interesting countenance, frequented the
quarter inhabited by the French merchants. To
gain a few medins, he shewed a number of scor-
pions, which he carried under his cap, and handled
with impunity. He gave out, that he, as well as
his countrymen, possessed the secret of being se-
cure against the stings of these venomous insects ;
but this pretended secret, as he confessed to me,
consisted in the precaution of plucking out the
sting, with which the last joint of the scorpion's
tail is armed. The liveliness and native wit of
this young Nubian induced me to take him into
my service, but I was soon weary of him, and I
had reason to confess that Consul Maillct was not
much to blame for driving the men of that nation
from the houses of the French.
Plate XXIV. represents an ancient statue, which
I saw at Cairo, in the hands of an Italian monk,
of the congregation of [hepropaganda, who gave it
to M. Tott. This statue is of a white calcareous
3 stone,