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

and lower EGYPT.

CHAP. XLVII.

Ahiouh—Bulla s—Rarllien pots—JVater-melons—
Neguade—Earthquake—The hyena—Wild and
domestic animals—The tiger—The Hon—The hip-
popotamus—The hear—Boat anchor—Robbers—
The stork—The pelican—Jsmcdn-Abou-Ali: de-
scription of him ; his plan to make himself young
again.

Abnoub, a large village which belonged to the
Arabian Sche'ick Isma'in-Abou-Ali, is situated about
four or five leagues to the south of Deudera, and
on the eastern bank of the Nile. It was the be-
ginning of his territories, and he there maintained
d commandant. Ballas, another possession of
the same prince, which stands three leagues above
on the opposite bank, is a trading village, owing
to the great quantity of earthen pots which are
there manufactured. These vessels have no other
name than that of the place where they are made.
They are of a middling size, and have two han-
dles: the bottom of these pots is externally con-
vex, and nearly terminates in a point, so that
they cannot stand upright. . This inconvenient
shape resembled that of the amphora, or jug, in
which the Romans preserved their wine ; it is per-
petuated