indifferent weather, clear throughout the day, exceedingly cold in the night and morning; but, being better cloathed, better fed than in the desert, and under cover, we were not so ſenſible of it, though the thermometer ſhewed the ſame degrees. Above all, we had a good decent proviſion of brandy on board, part of which I had procured from the Aga, part from the Schourbatchie my landlord, neither of whom knew the other had given me any, and both of them pretended to each other, and to the world, that they never taſted fermented liquors of any kind, nor kept them in their cuſtody.
I had given to each of my servants, to Soliman and to the Greeks likewise, a common blanket called a barracan, of the warmest and coarsest kind, with a waiſtcoat and trowsers of the same, and all of us, I believe, had consigned to the Nile the clothes in which we paſſed the deſert. The meanneſs of our appearance did not at all ſhock us, ſince nothing contributes more to ſafety in a country like this. I paſſed Shekh Nimmer not without regret, but it was night, and I was very ill.
On the 19th we arrived at How, where the intermitting fever, which I had at Syene, again returned, with unuſual violence, and, what was moſt unlucky, my stock of bark was almoſt exhauſted, and the Rais had buſineſs that obliged him to lie by for a day. As we were within a ſmall distance of Furſhout, I dispatched one of the Barbarins, with a camel, to the fathers at the monaſtery of Furshout informing them of my arrival and very bad ſtate of health, and requeſting them to ſend me ſome wheat bread, as mine was
