_Design to penetrate into Habbesh or Abyssinia — Voyage on the Nile — Description of Assiût — General course of the Nile — Caverns — Kaw — Achmîm — Painted caverns — Jirjé or Girgi — Dendera — Antient temple — Kous — Topography of Upper Egypt — El-wah-el-Ghîrbi — Situation of the_ Oasis parva. 120 CHAP. IX. UPPER EGYPT. _Thebes — Site and antiquities — Painted caverns — Their discovery and plan — Manners of the people of Thebes — Isna — Fugitive Beys — Antiquities — Rain — Assûan or Syené — Obstacles to farther progress — Return to Ghenné._ 134 CHAP. X. JOURNEY TO COSSÎR ON THE RED SEA. _Inducements and danger — Route — Account of Cossîr — Commerce — Return by another route — Granite rocks, and antient road — Marble quarries — Pretended canal — Earthen ware of Ghenné — Murder of two Greeks, and subsequent report of the Author’s death._ 143 CHAP. XI. OCCURRENCES AT KAHIRA. _Arrival of the Pasha — Death of Hassan Bey — Decline of the French factory in Kahira — Expulsion of the Maronite Christians from the Custom-house — Riot among the Galiongîs — Obstructions of the canal of Menûf — Supply of fish in the pools of Kahira — Expedition of Achmet Aga, &c._ 151 CHAP. XII. ANTIENT EGYPTIANS. _Their persons, complexion, &c._ 159 CHAP. XIII. JOURNEY TO FEIUME. _Tamieh — Canals — Feiume — Roses — Lake Mœris — Oasis parva — Pyramids — of Hawara — of Dashûr — of Sakarra — of Jizé, or the Great Pyramids — Antient Memphis — Egyptian capitals._ 167 CHAP. XIV. JOURNEY TO SINAI. _Route — Suez — Ships and ship-building — Trade — Scarcity of water — Remains of the antient canal — Tûr — Mountains of red granite — Description of Sinai — Eastern gulf of the Red Sea — Return to Kahira._ 175 CHAP. XV. JOURNEY TO DAR-FÛR, A KINGDOM IN THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA.