An immense swarm of minute ants would seize upon every kind of eatable, particularly bread.

One evening I left a roll upon the table, and the next morning found it half eaten away, and covered with ants within and without.

It is here an universal custom to place the feet of the tables in little dishes filled with water, to keep off these insects.
EXCURSION TO SUEZ.
It had originally been my intention to stay at Cairo a week at the furthest, and afterwards to return to Alexandria.

But the more I saw, the more my curiosity became excited, and I felt irresistibly impelled to proceed.

I had now travelled in almost every way, but I had not yet tried an excursion on a camel.