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AND LOWER EG Y?T. 139
lodging in the city. We continued more than
three hours waiting for him, exposed to excessive
heat, and the dust scattered through the air; and
finding that he did not return, I sent to request of
the monks, hy means of my interpreter, that they
would at least point out a house to which we might
retire. The superior came with the interpreter
to entreat that I would accept of his. I did not
refuse, because it entered into my plans to pay for
the lodging which I might find there ; but I must
say, to'the credit of the monks of Farschout, that
they at least displayed to me the exterior of cour-
teous, but perhaps interested hospitality.
There are only two priests in this house ; but it
could contain a much greater number; for al-
though it is not so vast as that of Echmimm, it is
however spacious, handsome, and commodious. I
found there a Christian merchant of Cairo, who
bore the same name with the borrowed one under
which I disguised my Christianity ; he was called
Malium Yousef. I had seen him at Cairo at the
house of the Arab prince Dervisch, sovereign of
Farschout, and of several cantons to the westward,
when he accompanied, with his father-in-law, Is-
main Abou AH, the victorious Mourat Bey. This
merchant possessed the confidence of Dervisch,
and offered to conduct me to hiin.
The
lodging in the city. We continued more than
three hours waiting for him, exposed to excessive
heat, and the dust scattered through the air; and
finding that he did not return, I sent to request of
the monks, hy means of my interpreter, that they
would at least point out a house to which we might
retire. The superior came with the interpreter
to entreat that I would accept of his. I did not
refuse, because it entered into my plans to pay for
the lodging which I might find there ; but I must
say, to'the credit of the monks of Farschout, that
they at least displayed to me the exterior of cour-
teous, but perhaps interested hospitality.
There are only two priests in this house ; but it
could contain a much greater number; for al-
though it is not so vast as that of Echmimm, it is
however spacious, handsome, and commodious. I
found there a Christian merchant of Cairo, who
bore the same name with the borrowed one under
which I disguised my Christianity ; he was called
Malium Yousef. I had seen him at Cairo at the
house of the Arab prince Dervisch, sovereign of
Farschout, and of several cantons to the westward,
when he accompanied, with his father-in-law, Is-
main Abou AH, the victorious Mourat Bey. This
merchant possessed the confidence of Dervisch,
and offered to conduct me to hiin.
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