We went in state, accompanied by the Consul, with two janissaries in front, bearing silver maces, and a dragoman behind.

Besides, the janissary of the Consulate had showed us the way to his house.

Depending upon the attendance of the hotel-keeper at Cairo, who had been apprised of our approach, we had not put the janissary on shore, as we ought to have done, at the British Consul's country-house, who would have furnished us with a talisman to pass the gates.

They were met by the janissaries with the same spirit as before.

Colonel Campbell was most particularly kind and attentive, offering one of the government janissaries as an escort to Cairo; an offer which we most readily accepted, and which proved of infinite service to us.