Note 592 — Chapter III · PILGRIMS AND PILGRIMAGES (continued 2)

Ibid. The same scramble for asses is going on even now in Palestine and Egypt, and modern “Saracens” are careful to ingratiate themselves with the traveller by addressing to him a few words in the language of his supposed nationality; one such at the foot of the Pyramids some years ago, would keep repeating to us, as a sesame for our purses, these three magic words: “Bonaparte, quarante siècles.” We had not, however, to deplore the disappearance of any “knyves and other smal thynges.”