Descended from an eminent family at Basle--Born at Lausanne--Aversion to republican principles--Detestation of the French--Enters as a student at Leipzig--Removes to Göttingen--Arrives in London--African Association--His offers are accepted--Studies Arabic--Allows his beard to grow--Assumes the oriental dress--Accustoms himself to endure hardships--Sails from Cowes--Arrives at Malta--Dr. Sectzen--Assumes the character of an Indian Mohammedan merchant--Reaches the coast of Syria--Departs for Aleppo--Laughable anecdote--Aga’s dislike to beer and potatoes--Suspected of being a Frank in disguise--Is pulled by the beard and otherwise insulted--Arrives at Aleppo--Puts off his Mohammedan dress--Is seized with fever from the bites of vermin--Attempts a translation of Robinson Crusoe into Arabic--Sets out in company with an Arab sheïkh for Palmyra--Robbed on the road--Damascus--Arab hospitality--Beautiful scenery--Baalbec and Libanus--Cedars--The Druses--Haurān the patrimony of Abraham--Vestiges of ancient cities--Places himself under the protection of an Arab sheïkh--Enters the desert--Is stripped to the skin, and left exposed to the rays of the sun--Arab lady attempts to steal his shirt--Returns to Damascus--Dead Sea--Joins a caravan--Philadelphia--Treachery of the Sheïkh of Kerek--Valley of Ghor--Ruins of Petra--Arrives at Cairo--Journey into Nubia--Mameluke chiefs--Deadly feud--Hospitality of the Nubians--Romantic scenery--Curious mode of extorting presents--Admirable custom of placing water-jars by the road-side--Drunken savages--Palm wine--Contempt for Mohammed Ali--Descends the Nile--Colossal statues--Anecdote of an Arab--Assouan--Cheapness of provisions--March of a caravan through the desert--Is treated with great contempt by his companions--Bruce--Burckhardt’s insolent skepticism respecting that eminent traveller--Extraordinary sufferings--Wady el Nabeh--Scarcity of water--Nubian desert--Lakes of mirage--Is near perishing from thirst--Camels despatched to the Nile--Insolence and extortion--Extraordinary method of discovering a stolen lamb--Arrives at Damar--Adventure with a Faky--Numerous crocodiles--Romantic scenery--Tremendous effects of a desert storm--Taka--Enormous lions--Effects of the sultan’s firman on his persecutors--Returns to Jidda--Attacked by fever--Delicious fruit--Sells his slave--Sets out for the interior of the Hejah--Arrives at Mecca--Picturesque scenery--Ras el Kora--Tayef--Observations on Burckhardt’s beard--Suspected of being an English spy--Affects to be hurt by the pasha’s suspicions--Animated description of the Hadj, or pilgrimage to Mecca--Sets out for Medina--Is attacked by an intermittent fever--Melancholy condition--Consoles himself by reading Milton--Tomb of Mohammed--Sets out for Yembo--Plague--Pursues his journey to Cairo--Composes his journal--Excursion to Mount Sinai--Furnishes Belzoni with money for removing the head of