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AND LOWER EGYPT. 247
and undertook to direct our course. The Arab
supplied us with horses, and accompanied us about
a quarter of a league ; but notwithstanding all my
importunity, he refused to advance farther. We
were then left under the protection of a man half
naked, walking a-foot, with no other arms than a
stick, and whose unfavourable appearance made u,s
apprehensive that we should meet with more like
himself. He took us offthe plain in order to avoid
the vicinity of Kamoule. We climbed those steep
mountains which form a chain of rocks alon<r the
cultivated districts of Upper Egypt. We passed by
narrow straits and irregular windings, through
the wildest of deserts, as no trace was to be seen
either of men or of animals ; and a pile of rocks
heaped upon each other, thoroughly concealed the
inhabited part of Egypt. A road like this, difficult,
and often dangerous for our horses, was by no
means adapted to dispel our fears. Our guide, in
conjunction with our hosts at Gournei, might have
carried us thither to lead us into some ambuscade;
however, after journeying for six hours in these
unpleasant roads, we descended into the plain near
Negumle, from whence we passed over to Kous.
Our conductor followed us thither, and very well
satisfied at having escaped his enemies, hewasun-
willing to expose himself again in their neighbour-
hood, but followed the Nile with his horses on the
'..'astern side, till hearrivedopposite to hishabitation.
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and undertook to direct our course. The Arab
supplied us with horses, and accompanied us about
a quarter of a league ; but notwithstanding all my
importunity, he refused to advance farther. We
were then left under the protection of a man half
naked, walking a-foot, with no other arms than a
stick, and whose unfavourable appearance made u,s
apprehensive that we should meet with more like
himself. He took us offthe plain in order to avoid
the vicinity of Kamoule. We climbed those steep
mountains which form a chain of rocks alon<r the
cultivated districts of Upper Egypt. We passed by
narrow straits and irregular windings, through
the wildest of deserts, as no trace was to be seen
either of men or of animals ; and a pile of rocks
heaped upon each other, thoroughly concealed the
inhabited part of Egypt. A road like this, difficult,
and often dangerous for our horses, was by no
means adapted to dispel our fears. Our guide, in
conjunction with our hosts at Gournei, might have
carried us thither to lead us into some ambuscade;
however, after journeying for six hours in these
unpleasant roads, we descended into the plain near
Negumle, from whence we passed over to Kous.
Our conductor followed us thither, and very well
satisfied at having escaped his enemies, hewasun-
willing to expose himself again in their neighbour-
hood, but followed the Nile with his horses on the
'..'astern side, till hearrivedopposite to hishabitation.
R 4