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AND liOWER EGYPT. 213
waters of the Nile to cool. One day the monks
of Neguade were employing themselves in this
operation at the gate of the convent, ignorant
that there were any sick people in their vicinity.
Immediately a woman in tears was seen issuing
out of a contiguous house, running with all her
might, and carrying in her arms an infant seized
with the small-pox. When she had put the child
in a place of safety, she returned to the convent,
uttering loud shrieks, and endeavouring to stir
up the people against the Franks, who, she said,
had endeavoured to destroy her child. When
any one, accordingly, burns mastich in the open
air, he is careful to inform himself beforehand if
there are any sick people in the neighbourhood ;
for they believe that, whatever the nature of the
disorder may be, the smoke of that rosin causes
instantaneous death whenever it is respired.
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waters of the Nile to cool. One day the monks
of Neguade were employing themselves in this
operation at the gate of the convent, ignorant
that there were any sick people in their vicinity.
Immediately a woman in tears was seen issuing
out of a contiguous house, running with all her
might, and carrying in her arms an infant seized
with the small-pox. When she had put the child
in a place of safety, she returned to the convent,
uttering loud shrieks, and endeavouring to stir
up the people against the Franks, who, she said,
had endeavoured to destroy her child. When
any one, accordingly, burns mastich in the open
air, he is careful to inform himself beforehand if
there are any sick people in the neighbourhood ;
for they believe that, whatever the nature of the
disorder may be, the smoke of that rosin causes
instantaneous death whenever it is respired.
p 3