47th, Arrive at the convent of monks on the hill of linaddy l'Ottron.
52d, Reach Cairo. .
The caravans from Sennaar and Dar-Fur are very ir regular in their motions, arising front the revolutions which are constantly taking place in their unsettled go vernments. Sometimes two or three years elapse with out any of them arriving at Cairo. The number of inde pendent Arabs, who infest the roads between these two places and Cairo is very great, and contribute to the ir regularity of these Caravans.
One of the finest descriptive pictures of the manners of a caravan that was perhaps ever drawn, without the aid of a pencil, is given by C hatcaubriand, in his Trm els into Greece and Palestine. « It was midnight, says he, wnen we arrived at the Ran of Menemen. I perceived at a distance a great number of scattered lights; it was a caravan making a halt. Oo a nearer approach, I dis tinguished camels, some lying, others standing ; some with their loads, others relieved from their burdens. horses and asses without. bridles, were eating barley out of leather buckets; some of the men were still on horse back, and the women, veiled, had not alighted from their dromedaries. Turkish merchants were seated cross-leg ged on carpets, in groupcs round toe fires, at wide': the slaves were busily employed in dressing pilau. Other
travellers were smoking their pipes at the door of the kan, chewing opium, and listening to stories. Here were people burning ( °Ike in iron pots; there hu' k sters went about from lire to lire, offering cakes, fruits, and poultry, for sale. Singers were amusing the crowd; imans were performing their ablutions, prostrating them selves, rising again, and imuking the prophet ; and the camel-drivers lay snoring on the ground. The place was strewed with packages, bags of cotton, and «miffs of rice. All these objects, now distinct, now confused and enveloped in a half shade, exhibited a genuine seem; of the Arnbiao Nights." See Chateaubriand's Travel? in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary, vol. i. p.
304 ; Voln•y's Voyage en 8yrie et en Egyptc, tol. ii.; Russel's History ; Poeocke's Description if Egypt, vol. i. p. 188-261; Maillet Description de l'E gypte, Paris, 174.0 ; Rennel, Phil. Trans. vol. lxxxi. 129 ; Jackson's Account of Marocco, p. 237 ; and Browne's Travels in Africa, chap. 18. See also the cuticles AKA 111A, Asts, BA HARI, and CA04.0. (7:-)