fOKEIGNEES IX EGYPT.— TUKKS. 151 tarbush, diamond orders, Sec, and perhaps a little red artistically laid on the wasted cheek, seemed somewhat too sad, and since then Clot has never adopted the Frank dress, nor should he, when he would make a conquest.* In the theatre of Cairo one.

sees him running from box to box, like a young dandy, and whispering soft nothings, and ogling every lady he sees.

Spaniards are very rare in Egypt ; but such as there are, are not in good odour. Nor are the numbers of Englishmen large ; they are little talked of, nor shall I allude further to them ; they are principally employed as engineers, and in the factory or mine departments.

The educated Germans are few ; but there is a considerable number of mechanics from that country, and in these the nation seems to have selected her worst specimens. They are all dissipated, without truth or faith, and when one sees these louts, and hears of their rascally tricks, one must blush to have a fatherland in common with them. Most of them have, indeed, been compelled to fly their country, from their villanous excesses or crimes ; and have, to perfect themselves, taken lessons in Hungary, Bucharest, and Constantinople, before coming to Egypt and settling down in that land, fully accomplished in all the arts of thieving, cheating* drinking, and blood-shedding.

Besides many Armenians, mostly shrewd merchants and SarafTs (bankers), Mograbins, and Jews, there are to be found here individuals of all races and countries under the sun.

The native population of Egypt are in general a set of cheats and thieves ; not the smallest faith or trust can be placed in any of them. The genuine Turks hold the Turks of Egypt as the outcasts of their [race. Then, most of the great among the latter have in former times been slaves, brought up under every degradation, and in the knowledge of every low villany— today they are slaves, to-morrow they may be Bey or Pascha ; but for life they are slaves in mind and feeling, and only fear of their power makes any one look on them as of higher grade than themselves.

* This he closely adhered to on his last trip to France to look for a Iridc, and there he happily gained a wife, who may have then dreamt she had not done so ill.