Rabbi, muphti, and bishop, the Talmud, the Koran, and the Bible, were much on a level in his estimation.

He was willing to make use of them all as it might serve his purpose; and, though not by nature cruel, he did not hesitate, when his interest seemed to demand it, to invest his name with every circumstance of terror, that could result from the most merciless violation of those laws of humanity which even his Koran enforces, and which his own address to his army had so recently inculcated.
Napoleon left Alexandria on the 7th July, being anxious to force the Mamelukes to an encounter with the least possible delay.

He had a small flotilla on the Nile, which served to guard his right flank: the infantry marched over burning sand at some distance from the river.

The miseries of this progress were extreme.

The air is crowded with pestiferous insects, the glare of the sand weakens most men's eyes, and blinds many; water is scarce and bad: and the country had been swept clear of man, beast, and vegetable.