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32. 2. le syndic des marchands de Djeddah; the syndic is the atative of the corporation of merchants.

2-3. le sultan des fils d'Egypte, an emphatic metaphor to say: owing to his great ri< bes be i as powerful among his countrymen as a Bultan.

6. Yambo, or Jambo, a commercial port on the Red Sea, in Hedjaz, Arabia; not as important, however, as Djeddah.

Suez, the seaport of Egypt situated at the head of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern terminal of the Suez canal.

Karthoun, or Karl ou m, a city in Nubia, situated at the union of the White and Blue Xile; formerly the capital of the Egyptian Sudan.

7. Caire, Cairo, the capital of Egypt, situated one mile east of the mouth of the Nile.

33. 18. Arnautes, the Turkish name for the Albanians. Albania is a région in the western part of European Turkey, a country of fréquent rebellions against their masters, the Turks.