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travels in upper
CHAP. LI.
Copht of Kous—Sheep of Yemen—Sheep of Egypt—r
Goats—Hogs—Motives which have induced the
■Egyptians to exclude these animals from being a
part of their food—Crocodile—Lizard—Frag-
ments of ancient stones and glasses—Stones anti-
dotes to poison.
I had scarcely returned to the apartment which
I had already occupied at Kous when Malliini Toe-
tor called to see me with all the show of friend-
ship, and to congratulate me on my good fortune
in having given up the journey to Cosseir, because,
as he told me, the Turkish merchant, to whom he
thought he might have trusted, had laid a plan to
have me robbed upon the road. I did not pay
much attention to the conversation of a man with
whose treachery I was so well acquainted. The
Turkish merchant was no longer at Kous, and I
was very sure that if he had been there, and Poctor
absent, he would have told me the self-same story
of the other with a view to extract some fresh pre-
sent out of me. But the Copht introduced one
very probable circumstance into his tale, namely,
that my Christian interpreter had engaged in the
plot contrived by the Turk, and Poctor might
have
travels in upper
CHAP. LI.
Copht of Kous—Sheep of Yemen—Sheep of Egypt—r
Goats—Hogs—Motives which have induced the
■Egyptians to exclude these animals from being a
part of their food—Crocodile—Lizard—Frag-
ments of ancient stones and glasses—Stones anti-
dotes to poison.
I had scarcely returned to the apartment which
I had already occupied at Kous when Malliini Toe-
tor called to see me with all the show of friend-
ship, and to congratulate me on my good fortune
in having given up the journey to Cosseir, because,
as he told me, the Turkish merchant, to whom he
thought he might have trusted, had laid a plan to
have me robbed upon the road. I did not pay
much attention to the conversation of a man with
whose treachery I was so well acquainted. The
Turkish merchant was no longer at Kous, and I
was very sure that if he had been there, and Poctor
absent, he would have told me the self-same story
of the other with a view to extract some fresh pre-
sent out of me. But the Copht introduced one
very probable circumstance into his tale, namely,
that my Christian interpreter had engaged in the
plot contrived by the Turk, and Poctor might
have