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bread, and farther agreed to provide a certain
quantum of buffaloes ; but these he obtained
from the inhabitants in the way of a requisi-
; tion. Buffalo-meat is known to be extremely
coarse and of a very peculiar flavour, as the
animal in Egypt is almost amphibious, some-
times lying in the water nearly the whole
day.
The general, hearing on the 29th of May
that Caia Bey had arrived at Terrana with
the advanced guard, an officer of rank was
sent to congratulate and promise him pro-
tection. Caia Bey was an Ethiopian of a
dark copper colour, with a white bristly
beard, and extremely inquisitive and suspi-
cious. In fact, Sir 11. Wilson represents him
as another Syphax. The Captain Pacha, as
well as General Hutchinson, however, recei-
ved him with apparent cordiality.
We find the army, on the 1st of June,
moved forwards to Mishlie ; and the next
returned from visiting the Mameluke’s
evening Mr. Hutchinson, the General’s bro-
O „ 1
ther.
camp, about 6 miles off, and gave a very
flattering account of their appearance and
manners.
Osman Bey, though he had eleven beys
under him, wore no marks of distinction,
excepting a beautiful diamond-hilted dagger,
which had belonged to Morad, his predeces-
sor. But the force of the Beys under Osman,
their followers excepted, did not exceed
1200 men, having left about 800 in Egypt to
e C J •/ -i -
superintend their farms, &c. Both these and
bread, and farther agreed to provide a certain
quantum of buffaloes ; but these he obtained
from the inhabitants in the way of a requisi-
; tion. Buffalo-meat is known to be extremely
coarse and of a very peculiar flavour, as the
animal in Egypt is almost amphibious, some-
times lying in the water nearly the whole
day.
The general, hearing on the 29th of May
that Caia Bey had arrived at Terrana with
the advanced guard, an officer of rank was
sent to congratulate and promise him pro-
tection. Caia Bey was an Ethiopian of a
dark copper colour, with a white bristly
beard, and extremely inquisitive and suspi-
cious. In fact, Sir 11. Wilson represents him
as another Syphax. The Captain Pacha, as
well as General Hutchinson, however, recei-
ved him with apparent cordiality.
We find the army, on the 1st of June,
moved forwards to Mishlie ; and the next
returned from visiting the Mameluke’s
evening Mr. Hutchinson, the General’s bro-
O „ 1
ther.
camp, about 6 miles off, and gave a very
flattering account of their appearance and
manners.
Osman Bey, though he had eleven beys
under him, wore no marks of distinction,
excepting a beautiful diamond-hilted dagger,
which had belonged to Morad, his predeces-
sor. But the force of the Beys under Osman,
their followers excepted, did not exceed
1200 men, having left about 800 in Egypt to
e C J •/ -i -
superintend their farms, &c. Both these and