kiaya properly 'lieutenant-general of the Vizier

du divan. A sort of municipal council of sheikhs and the chief inhabitants of Cairo. It is the Turkish name for a Council of State. Our use of the word, to denote a room with cushions round it, simply transfers it from the Council to the Council-chamber.

1. 25. aga means 'lord,' and is especially used of the commander of the janissaries.'

couverts. We use 'cover' in the same way of the knives, forks, &c. for each guest. 'Covers were laid for 500 guests.'

1. 27. El-Béquier. Otherwise Ezbekeeyah, in the northern part of the city, now laid out as a public garden.

le bonnet de la liberté. The Phrygian cap, very common in ancient works of art representing Asiatics. It is very like a man's nightcap, with the part to which the tassel is attached bent forward. Figures of Liberty and of the Republic were often adorned with it.

1. 29. berceau, here, 'canopy,' 'arbour,' which is only a cradle upside-down. The probable derivation is from the German 'bergen.'

1. 30. la Table des Droits de P Homme. A manifesto published by the Constituent Assembly in 1789, as a preface to the Constitution. Carlyle says of it: 'Rights of Man, printed on cotton handkerchiefs, in various dialogues of human speech, pass over to the Frankfort Fair. What say we, Frankfort Fair? They have crossed Euphrates and the fabulous Hydaspes; wafted themselves beyond the Ural, Altai, Himalaya; struck off from wood stereotypes, in angular picture-writing, they are jabbered and jangled of in China and Japan. '

1. 34. Kléber, the officer to whom Bonaparte handed over the command when he left Egypt. He concluded a convention with Sir

So LA CANNE DE JONC.

Sidney Smith, which was, however, disowned by the English government. He then resumed hostilities, defeated the Turkish forces in thebattle of Heliopolis, and was shortly afterwards assassinated.

était couché, ' was lying. ' What would s'était couché mean?

1. 37. Menou. A French officer who adopted Mahometanism, took the name of Abdallah, and married a Turkish wife. - He succeeded Kléber in the command in Egypt, and was defeated by General Abercrombie at Canopus.