TRAVELS

IN

TURKEY, EGYPT, NUBIA,

AND

PALESTINE,

IN 1824, 1825, 1826, AND 1827.

BY

R. R. MADDEN, ESQ. M. R. C. S.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1829.

JOURNEY from Cairo to Thebes—Sites of ancient Towns

-Innoxious Serpents—Canal of Benesouef-Sepul-

chral Well—Siout-Coptic Priests—Egyptian Harem

-Arab Customs-Antiquity of Circumcision

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LETTER XXVI.

TO JOSHUA BROOKES, ESQ.

The Crocodile—The Chameleon—The Lizard—Hyenas

-Rats—The Jackall—The Wild Cat—Egyptian Vul-

ture—The Ibis—The Serpent-Serpent of Paradise-

The horned Viper—Poisons—Locusts—Quails .

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LETTER XXVII.

TO CHARLES MATHEWS, ESQ.

Arab Shepherds—Court of Justice—The Sheik el belled-

Abden Casheff-Sir Hudson Lowe—Attempted Assas-

sination-Injustice of a Casheff-An English Travel-

ler—Case of Consumption—Monk of Negadè—Mis-

sionaries-Character of oneExcessive Heat-Arab

Hospitality -- Arab Hut— Importunities — Accident-

Price of Blood—Satisfactory Conclusion—Monuments

of Thebes

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