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On the whole, the dinner was not disagreeable; it was only the manner of eating it that seemed strange to us. In the evening the whole city was illuminated. After dinner the party went into the square of El Bekri, the illumination of which, in coloured lamps, was very beautiful. An immense concourse of people attended. He slept at or near the door of Napoleon.
There were twenty tables, and five or six people at each table. That of the General-in-Chief and the sheik El Bekri was in the middle; a little slab of a precious kind of wood ornamented with mosaic work was placed eighteen inches above the floor and covered with a great number of dishes in succession.
They witnessed the operations of our able chemist with the most imperturbable indifference. When they were ended, the sheik El Bekri desired the interpreter to tell M. Berthollet that it was all very fine; "but," said he, "ask him whether he can make me be in Morocco and here at one and the same moment?" M. Berthollet replied in the negative, with a shrug of his shoulders.
On the 18th Bonaparte was present at the ceremony of opening the dyke of the canal of Cairo, which receives the water of the Nile when it reaches the height fired by the Mequyas. Two days after came the anniversary festival of the birth of Mahomet. At this Napoleon was also present, in company with the sheik El Bekri, who at his request gave him two young Mamelukes, Ibrahim, and Roustan.
There were twenty tables, and five or six people at each table. That of the General-in-Chief and the sheik El Bekri was in the middle; a little slab of a precious kind of wood ornamented with mosaic work was placed eighteen inches above the floor and covered with a great number of dishes in succession.
He had lost his wager. He could do everything, but he could not make a contented man. Bekri Mustafe, who lived during the reign of Sultan Selim, was a celebrated toper, and perhaps at that time the only Moslem drunkard in Turkey. Consequently, he was often the subject of conversation in circles both high and low.
The Egyptian Institute Festival of the birth of Mahomet Bonapartes prudent respect for the Mahometan religion His Turkish dress Djezzar, the Pasha of Acre Thoughts of a campaign in Germany Want of news from France Bonaparte and Madame Fours The Egyptian fortune-teller, M. Berthollet, and the Sheik El Bekri The air "Marlbrook" Insurrection in Cairo Death of General Dupuis Death of Sulkowsky The insurrection quelled Nocturnal executions Destruction of a tribe of Arabs Convoy of sick and wounded Massacre of the French in Sicily projected expedition to Syria Letter to Tippoo Saib.
The Egyptian Institute Festival of the birth of Mahomet Bonapartes prudent respect for the Mahometan religion His Turkish dress Djezzar, the Pasha of Acre Thoughts of a campaign in Germany Want of news from France Bonaparte and Madame Fours The Egyptian fortune-teller, M. Berthollet, and the Sheik El Bekri The air "Marlbrook" Insurrection in Cairo Death of General Dupuis Death of Sulkowsky The insurrection quelled Nocturnal executions Destruction of a tribe of Arabs Convoy of sick and wounded Massacre of the French in Sicily projected expedition to Syria Letter to Tippoo Saib.
The export of these dates has been going on for centuries; in 1068 the geographer Bekri wrote that almost every day a thousand camels, or even more, leave Tozeur loaded with dates, and the trade will become still livelier when they have finished building the railway which is to connect this place with the present terminus Metlaoui.
The Sultan, to verify the truth of this statement, sent his servants into the highways to bring four men, the one blind, the other deaf, the third lame, and the fourth poor. Directly these were brought, his Majesty ordered raki to be served to them in company with Bekri. They had not been drinking long when, to the glory of Bekri, the deaf man said: "I hear the sound of great rumbling."
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