[20]This expedition remains in considerable obscurity, though it may be regarded as the last dying spark of the crusades, as the adventurers seem to have been of several nations. Fordun, Scotichr. vol. ii. p. 488, mentions Norman Lesley, his countryman, as a prime actor. There was an old Scottish poem on the feats of Sir Walter, his brother, Duke of Leygaroch in France. Ibid. and Maitland’s Poems.
[21]This place takes its name from the tomb of a Christian ecclesiastic, called Ammon-el-abed, or the devout; its other name is Ensené, evidently from that of Antinous.
[22]The remainder might be easily copied, but circumstances did not then permit me to give the time necessary for that purpose.
[23]That custom is still retained at Damiatt, notwithstanding the purer precepts of Islamism.
[24]They sell the males, and themselves generally mount mares in their warlike expeditions.
[25]Now Geziret-es-Sag, Claustra Imperii Romani. Tac.
[26]A place where the troops are exercised, and rencontres between opposing parties frequently have had place.
[27]Populorum Africæ vocabula plerumque ineffabilia, præterquam ipsorum linguis. Pliny.
[28]The best idea of the Sphinx seems to be that of Maillet, who supposes it an emblem of the increase of the Nile under the signs of Leo and Virgo.
[29]Pococke, vol. i. p. 56. conceives this place to have received its name from the Greek word Ταμιέια, there having been a kind of lock there to restrain or let loose the water in the canal which passes by it.