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I36 TRAVELS IN UPPER
civility, which it was not my intention to receive
gratis, I cannot sufficiently commend the complai-
sance and attention of the Cophtish priest, who,
served as the pastor of the Catholics at Echnhnm.
He did not fail to visit me twice a day, and to seek
with eagerness every opportunity of being useful to
me. This contrast of sentiment and of conduct
has produced in my soul impressions altogether op-
posite ; gratitude and friendship for the one, and
the most decided contempt for the other.
The honest Copht would not separate himself
from me, on the day of my departure from Ech-
mimm, the 9th of June, till the moment when I
embarked to cross to the western shore of the Nile,
and recommence by land my journey to Farschout.
The heat all this day was excessive : the wind was
violent, but its impetuosity only served to fill the
atmosphere with clouds of dust, and we were afraid
to inhale the impetuous and inflamed blast; men
and animals were suffocated, they could not pro-
ceed without difficulty, and all sought for a shelter
from this temperature of fire. Beside, we were, to-
wards the middle of the day, the only creatures
who were travelling, and we did not see a single
person on the road we pursued.
We made the tour of the city of Girge, the ca-
pital of Upper Egypt, and arrived at Bardis to-
wards
civility, which it was not my intention to receive
gratis, I cannot sufficiently commend the complai-
sance and attention of the Cophtish priest, who,
served as the pastor of the Catholics at Echnhnm.
He did not fail to visit me twice a day, and to seek
with eagerness every opportunity of being useful to
me. This contrast of sentiment and of conduct
has produced in my soul impressions altogether op-
posite ; gratitude and friendship for the one, and
the most decided contempt for the other.
The honest Copht would not separate himself
from me, on the day of my departure from Ech-
mimm, the 9th of June, till the moment when I
embarked to cross to the western shore of the Nile,
and recommence by land my journey to Farschout.
The heat all this day was excessive : the wind was
violent, but its impetuosity only served to fill the
atmosphere with clouds of dust, and we were afraid
to inhale the impetuous and inflamed blast; men
and animals were suffocated, they could not pro-
ceed without difficulty, and all sought for a shelter
from this temperature of fire. Beside, we were, to-
wards the middle of the day, the only creatures
who were travelling, and we did not see a single
person on the road we pursued.
We made the tour of the city of Girge, the ca-
pital of Upper Egypt, and arrived at Bardis to-
wards