Identifier: journaloflatecam00wals (find matches)
Title: Journal of the late campaign in Egypt: including descriptions of that country, and of Gibraltar, Minorca, Malta, Marmorice, and Macri; with an appendix; containing official papers and documents
Year: 1803 (1800s)
Authors: Walsh, Thomas, fl. 1801
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Publisher: London T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davis
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ny other persons, will not hesitate to throw him-self into the power of his professed enemy,secure of meeting with safety and protection.They are however false, dissembling, revengeful,and cunning; and, though actually brave, will notscruple, in a dastardly manner, to assassinatetheir enemy. The Bedoweens are all furnished with horses,capable of undergoing the greatest fatigue intheir excursions over the Deserts, during whichtheir food is very scanty, and w^ater, alwaysSee plate 32, gcarcc, is somctimcs not to be found. Theirdress is very light, consisting of nothing morethan a loose frock and a turban ; their weaponsare a long gun and a dagger. The third class are the Fellahs, who are thefarmers and husbandmen of the country. Theyinhabit the villages, and cultivate the lands, all ofwhich are the property of the Mamalukes, bywhom these peorlj are kept in the most abjectslavery. When a Fellah has succeeded in amassing asmall sum, by dint of economy and hard labour,1 page 152. Pljite as
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