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a pyramid, then jolting on the bare back of a hard-trotting camel, and sometimes sitting crosslegged on the floor between two well-bearded Turks, at a Pacha's dinner-table, eating roast lamb and rice with my fingers. Meanwhile, in the letter press I go down to posterity as the author's 66 intelligent friend," his "amusing friend," and even his "enterprising friend." Thus, upon the whole, without the risk or trouble of authorship, I have gained a very cheap and agreeable literary immortality; except, however, that when any disaster occurs in the tour, I am somehow made to bear a much larger portion of it than I can recollect to have ever actually fallen to my share. On all such occasions I am made to figure as "our unfortunate friend."

It was not till we had again turned our faces towards civilized Europe, after having traversed in all directions the frozen North and the gorgeous East, and gazed on many a "forest and field and flood, temple and tower," renowned in song or in story, that we reached the land of Egypt.

We had consumed a full year in our tour more than we had calculated on, and were all of us in a feverish anxiety to return home. We therefore, una voce, gave up the thoughts of penetrating to

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the sources of the Nile, and of eating live beefsteaks with Bruce's Abyssinian friends.

But the Pyramids and the Sphinx, and the other wonders of antiquity thereunto appurtenant, we could not return without seeing, though they must be seen in haste. And we did see them.

It was after having seen all the sights, and explored the great Pyramid in the usual way within, and clambered to its top without, whilst my fatigued companions were resting in the shade with our guard, that I, who am proof against any fatigue of this sort, and a little vain too of being so, strolled forward towards the Sphinx, which, as every body knows, rears its ugly colossal head out of the sand at some distance in front of what is called the second Pyramid. I was standing near it, making a sketch, after my fashion, of the relative position of the four great Pyramids, when I was startled by the sudden appearance of a gay troop of Mameluke horse, whose approach had been hidden from my sight by the ruins of the small pyramid on my left, and who now suddenly darted by me in gallant style. To my surprise, the leader of the troop, who, from the dazzling splendour of his equipments seemed to be a chief of rank, in passing, looked me full in the face, and then rapidly

wheeling twice round me, sprang from his horse. In the meanwhile, his party, to whom he gave some brief command, went on at a slow walk, and halted in the shade of a neighbouring ruin.

The stranger stood silently before me, tall and stately, in that gorgeous amplitude aud splendour of dress which Eastern warriors love. His wide scarlet trowsers, marked him as a Mameluke. A rich Cashmere shawl, such as an English Duchess might have envied, was fancifully wreathed, turban-like, round his helm, and fell over his shoulders. This, as well as his clasped and silver-mounted pistols and jewel-hilted dagger in his belt, and his crooked cimeter in its crimson velvet sheath, with gold bosses and hilt, marked the rank and wealth of the wearer. So too did his slender-limbed small-headed, brighteyed iron-grey Arabian, with black legs, mane, and tail, and sprinkled all over with little stars of white, who had a moment before passed me with the swiftness of an arrow's flight, and who now stood behind his master, with the reins loose on his neck, gentle and docile as a spaniel.

Supposing that this might be some Turk whom I had known at Alexandria or Cairo, I looked him full in the face, but could not recollect having seen him before. He appeared young, except that his coal-black whiskers and beard were here

and there grizzled by a greyish hair. The scar of a deep sabre cut across the forehead and left cheek, showed him no holiday soldier. There was nothing in his manner to excite alarm, and besides, my friends, with a very strong guard of horse, were within hearing.

After mutually gazing on each other for some moments, the customary salaam of oriental salutation was on my lips, when I was startled by his grasping my hand with a genuine English shake, and calling me by name, in a well-known voice. Then, too, the thickly mustachioed upper lip drew back, and showed me the well-remembered tiger-like smile.

"Egerton-can it be ?-Major-” said I. "No-Hussein-Hussein Al Rus."

"Then this is not the Reverend Rector of I proceeded, perplexed and confused, though certain as to my man.

"Yes-but that was six long years ago. An awkward circumstance occurred which made it expedient for me to leave England; as I had no fancy to gain posthumous renown, like Dr. Dodd, by preaching my own funeral sermon and being hung in my canonicals.”

"But how is it that you are in Egypt; and that, it seems, in honour and affluence?"

"Yes. It goes well enough with me here.

Accident brought me to Egypt. The Pacha wanted men who knew European tactics, and I found a place in his service. Another accident,

of which I bear the mark, (passing his hand across his forehead,) placed me about his person. Au reste, I made my own way, and have a very pretty command, which I would not care to exchange for any regiment in his Majesty's service."

"But the language?"

"Oh-I have a great facility in catching languages by the ear. I believe I owe it to my Tuscarora education. Apropos-How is Good Peter? Is the old man alive?" I was about to tell him what I knew about Good Peter, when he again interrupted me. "But for yourselfwhat are you doing here? Have you moneymaking Yankees caught the English folly of digging up mummies, measuring pyramids, and buying stone coffins?-sarcophagi of Alexander and Ptolemy, as the fools call them."

So.

"As respects myself," I answered," it seems

"Then I may serve you. You once did me a favour, perhaps I can repay it now."

“I have no favours to ask, but that of your company, and the information you can give me. I am with an English party, under the protection

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