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116 TRAVELS IN EGYPT, NUBIA,off all communication between his house and the exterior;that in Cairo the inhabitants had died at the rate of twohundred a day; and that it continued raging for two months,when the increasing heat of the weather had stopped itsprogress.The effect of heat on this disorder is evident fromits rarely spreading into Upper Egypt as far as Siout.ThePasha's son Ibrahim had taken more than ordinary precautionto prevent the chance of its progress at his government,by ordering his physician to inspect the sick, and evendead bodies before their funeral, in order to be on his guardagainst it if it should find its way there.At Cairo there had been some scruples on the part of thesheiks of the religion with regard to encouraging commonprecautions, which the Kaya Bey had recommended.TheKoran was, however, consulted, and the necessary constructionput to a part of it which related to disease.The wayin which the plague was prevented from making its way intothe harem of the Pasha, corresponds with the idea generallyheld of Turkish government, where the interests of the chiefand the people are opposed.It was as follows.As soon as the plague had begun to rage at Cairo, theharem of the Pasha was removed to a village in the neigb*.bourhood of Gizeh, where he has. a palace; but as theinhabitants of the village had communication with Cairo,they were driven away, obliged to seek habitations whereΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ