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TRAVELS
in
UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT.
CHAP. XXXVIII.
Project of a journey into Abyssinia—The manner in
which the author supplied the insufficiency of the
means wherewith government furnished him—Dis-
gust with which travellers are oppressed—Prepa-
ration for a journey into Upper Egypt—Facility of
the eastern nations in speaking languages—Syrian
interpreter—Boulac— Curlews —Baihs—Emba-
hi—Butter— Lupin—Ancient Cairo — Joseph's
granaries—Aqueduct—Kilometer—Gizah.
The project of penetrating into Abyssinia, of vi-
siting those immense and interesting countries in
the interior of that part of the globe which is
least known, to do honour to my country by an
important expedition, which an Englishman, aided
by every means, by every assistance with which
government could supply him, had attempted
successfully ;> in a word, to compensate by a bold
and glorious enterprise, the contracted conrep-
voi. ni. s lions,
in
UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT.
CHAP. XXXVIII.
Project of a journey into Abyssinia—The manner in
which the author supplied the insufficiency of the
means wherewith government furnished him—Dis-
gust with which travellers are oppressed—Prepa-
ration for a journey into Upper Egypt—Facility of
the eastern nations in speaking languages—Syrian
interpreter—Boulac— Curlews —Baihs—Emba-
hi—Butter— Lupin—Ancient Cairo — Joseph's
granaries—Aqueduct—Kilometer—Gizah.
The project of penetrating into Abyssinia, of vi-
siting those immense and interesting countries in
the interior of that part of the globe which is
least known, to do honour to my country by an
important expedition, which an Englishman, aided
by every means, by every assistance with which
government could supply him, had attempted
successfully ;> in a word, to compensate by a bold
and glorious enterprise, the contracted conrep-
voi. ni. s lions,