African Wanderings Or An Expedition From Sennaar to Taka Basa And Beni Amer
African Wanderings Or An Expedition From Sennaar to Taka Basa And Beni Amer
Ferdinand Werne
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The number of the French here is much less than that of the two named nations. They are jesters, boasters, and charla- tans, as usual ; their every second word is " chez nous, " where all is better, more beautiful, and more perfect than any where else. One may, indeed, call them all adventurers ; but still mean or rascally tricks are by no means common among them, and their principal fault seems running into debt with their hosts and all who trust them. Their main supports are Soliman Pascha (t...he renegade, colonel Sives) in Syria, and Clot Bey. The latter has had high success here : formerly a poor doctor in Marseilles (I was introduced to him in Marseilles in 1822, by Dieffenbach), he is here a general. Ere he passed his forty-fifth year, he had, by his excesses, so broken down his constitution, that he was not unlike a good pathological preparation. Nothing but art and dress gave to the skeleton somewhat of the look of a man ; and he even now looks much more as if he belonged to the noble craft of the needle, than to the high rank and office he claims and holds, which is nothing less than, with the rank and pay of general, President of the Conseil General de Sante in Egypt.
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