[Footnote 57: He brought her thither during the process, instituted at Rome, relatively to her first marriage, and before that marriage was set aside. A long history attends this part of the life of this remarkable man. Montague having persuaded the first husband, who was captain of a merchant-man in the service of persons at Marseilles, to leave his wife, whom he had brought with him to Egypt, under M.’s protection at Rashîd, the latter took advantage of his absence on a voyage home, to persuade the woman that her husband was no more. He then made an offer of himself, which was accepted. On a disclosure of the affair, Montague had interest and address enough to set aside the first marriage, which had been solemnized before either of the parties were of age. The religious were persuaded that Montague was a zealous convert to the Catholic faith.] [Footnote 58: The _Santons_, or Mohammedan saints, are still permitted to continue their excesses. I was informed that one of them, very vigorous in transitory amours, met the wife of a rich Mohammedan merchant, newly married. The female attendant who was with her fled, and he accomplished his purpose in the open street. The merchant, complaining to the Pasha, only received this answer, “You ought to esteem yourself very happy, for your wife will probably be brought to bed of a _wellî_,” that is, a saint.] [Footnote 59: This sect, represented to me by the Arabs, and others in Syria, as having only at a late period originated, is precisely mentioned by Niebuhr, Description d’Arabie, ed. Paris, p. 208. with a little variation as to the tenets of its founder. He dates its rise in the year 1760, which is very possible, considering that the later accounts all agree that _Abd-el-azîz el Wahhâbé_ is a man of very advanced age.] [Footnote 60: The machine used in the manufacture is very simple, but the fabric is very complete, and executed with tolerable expedition. To make a _cottoni_ requires one hundred and twenty-five drams of silk. Half that quantity is sufficient for a light _alléja_. The wages of a manufacturer for making the former are sixty paras. The fabric of white silk is technically called in Arabic _craishi_; the _alléja_, _darekli_; the _cottoni_, _dadâr_. The ordinary length of each of these is about ten pikes (draa). The width about a pike.] [Footnote 61: The manner of making soap here deserves mention. They use oil of olives, putting to an hundred weight twenty-five pounds of kali, and five pounds of pulverized chalk. The latter articles are boiled till the water be sufficiently impregnated; the oil is then poured in, and the whole boils for three days over a fire composed of stones of olives.]