Excerpt from A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, Vol. 10: Many of Which Are Now First Translated Into English; Digested on a New Plan Our caravan had no very formidable afpe l. Being in halle to fet out from Cairo. Before the great caravan, which goes always to Suez, immediately after the eparture Of the veltels, we had not more than forty camels, which were loaded with corn and materials for building. Three Of our camels were employed in carrying an anchor. Ihave already had occafton to remark, that carriages are unknown in Egypt and Arabia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.