CHAPTER VI.

Mohammed Bey, Defterdar--His Expedition to Senaar--His Barbarity and Rapacity--His Defiance of the Pasha--Stories of his Cruelty and Tyranny--The Horse-shoe--The Fight of the Mamelukes--His cruel Treachery--His Mode of administering Justice--The stolen Milk--The Widow's Cow--Sale and Distribution of the Thief--The Turkish Character--Pleasures of a Journey on the Nile--The Copts--Their Patriarchs--The Patriarch of Abyssinia--Basileos Bey--His Boat--An American's choice of a Sleeping-place 64

NATRON LAKES.