Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 edition. Excerpt: ... AN EXACT JOURNAL, FROM CAIRO TO MOUNT SINAI, BEGUN THE FIRST OP SEPTEMBER, 1722. Sept. 1.--ALL our companions having assembled at my house, viz. Choga Abrahim Mossaad, Jacob Uhabez Abdelaziz, merchants; also Mons. Beraoue, the son of a French merchant, and three brothers, James of Bohemia missionary de propaganda fide, Elias of Aleppo, of the Society of Jesus, and Charles of the Franciscan Order, superior of the Capuchins; about three o'clock in the afternoon, after a brotherly embrace, and having taken leave of all the rest of my domesticks and friends, we went to the convent of the monks of Mount Sinai that dwell here at Cairo: immediately going from whence, we arrived at the famous gate called Babel Naaser*; where we made some stay to take an accurate view of that ancient and magnificent piece of building; and in the mean time the whole caravan being assembled, we departed, under the conduct of one of the surbassi, and accompanied by several orientals who were friends to the Cairo merchants, directed our course due east, among those ruins and ancient monuments which remain of the city of the Sun*, as is most probable, which are now every where interspersed with Turkish sepulchres; and after a journey of a good half hour from the gate of the city, we arrived at a place called Ukalt Elbahaarf, to which the aforementioned buildings, towers, or other ruins, extend; which time has, for the most part, consumed. In this place the monks of Mount Sinai have an ancient house, formerly sufficiently large and famous, and built of hewn stone; but unless it be soon repaired by those monks, it will add to the number of its neighbouring ruins. Here we staid all night with our camels and other beasts, being tolerably well accommodated; and only...