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240 TRAVELS IN UPPER.
on the morning of the 29th before Gournei to the
west of the Nile.
I was about one hundred and thirty-five or one
hundred and forty leagues from Cairo, when I
gave over advancing in a southern direction.
The place where I disembarked was planted
with gum acacias. Although the village was
not far removed from the river, I requested, and
this by the advice of the Scheick of Luxor, the
Scheick of Gournei, for whom 1 also had a letter
from Ismuin, to come himself to the bank of
the Nile. He arrived immediately, and con-
ducted me to the most pitiful, the most frightful
place, from ils miserable appearance, which I
have yet met with. The huts which compose it,
vilely constructed of mud, are not higher than a
man, and are merely covered with some branches
of the palm-tree. And the men ! I never had
seen any of so dire an aspect. Half black, the
body almost entirely naked, their miserable rags
covering only a part of it ; their physiognomy
gloomy and hagard with ferociousness; following
no trade, without taste for agriculture, and, like
the savage animals of the parched mountains near
which they live, appearing to live solely by rapine;
their whole aspect had something terrifying in it.
The Arab who represented Lnu'in there, had no
jgrcat
on the morning of the 29th before Gournei to the
west of the Nile.
I was about one hundred and thirty-five or one
hundred and forty leagues from Cairo, when I
gave over advancing in a southern direction.
The place where I disembarked was planted
with gum acacias. Although the village was
not far removed from the river, I requested, and
this by the advice of the Scheick of Luxor, the
Scheick of Gournei, for whom 1 also had a letter
from Ismuin, to come himself to the bank of
the Nile. He arrived immediately, and con-
ducted me to the most pitiful, the most frightful
place, from ils miserable appearance, which I
have yet met with. The huts which compose it,
vilely constructed of mud, are not higher than a
man, and are merely covered with some branches
of the palm-tree. And the men ! I never had
seen any of so dire an aspect. Half black, the
body almost entirely naked, their miserable rags
covering only a part of it ; their physiognomy
gloomy and hagard with ferociousness; following
no trade, without taste for agriculture, and, like
the savage animals of the parched mountains near
which they live, appearing to live solely by rapine;
their whole aspect had something terrifying in it.
The Arab who represented Lnu'in there, had no
jgrcat