Sonnini de Manoncourt, Charles Nicolas Sigisbert: Travels in upper and lower Egypt (Band 3) (London, 1807)

CONTENTS GF VOL. III. Vli

in women—Purgatives—'Senna—Venereal dis~
eases—Mas tick - - 190

Chap. XLIX.

The effects of missions in Egypt—Character of the
European monks who reside there—Perfidy of
those of Neguade—The author''s farewell to Isman-
Ahou-Ali—The gardens of Kous—Citron-trees—
Grapes—Melons— Water-melon—Dates—Down
-—The real acacia—Sesame, its oil, mode of pre-
paring it—Diseases of the shin at the period of
the swelling of the Nile - - 214

Chap. L.

Treachery of a Cophl—Character of the men of that
nation—Dangerous underhand dealings which ob-
lige the Author to give up the voyage of the Red
Sea—Wasp—New war in Upper Egypt—Western
side of the ancient city of Thebes—Gournei—
Wicked men by whom that village is inhabited—
Fragments of antiquity—Disagreeable night passed
at Gournei—A sick man—Physician of the country
—Route from Gournei to Neguade - 230

Chap. LI.

Copht of Kous—Sheep of Yemen—Sheep of Egypt—'
Goats—Hogs—Motives which have induced the
Egyptians to exclude these animals from being a
part of their food—Crocodile—Lizard—Frag-
ments of ancient stones and glasses—Stones anti-
dotes to poison - - 248

Chap.