ne t'y fie pas trop, * don't rely upon it too much

III. Le premir vendémiaire an VU = * le 23 septembre 1 799. ' au Caire, * at Cairo. ' Le Caire = * Cairo ' in the Delta of the Nile. Comp. Le Nâvre=^ Havre.'

116. le drapeau tricolore, *the tricolor flag,' which was the Republican flag, the Royal flag of France being entirely white. Taiffuille de Cléopâtre, ' Cleopatra's Needie,' the obelisk that now stands upon the Embankment in London.

118. de la Haute-Egypte, * Upper Egypt,' 1.^. the troops quartered in that part of Egypt lying further from the sea.

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the capital of which is Thebes, not to be confounded with Thebes in Greece.