John Lewis Burckhardt 
Travels of M. Burckhardt, in Egypt and Nubia [PDF ebook] 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The late Mr. Burckhardt was born at Zurich, inswit zerland, about 1786. His father was an officer in the military service of the French, and he had a brotherin the political service of that country also. He was him; self educated chiefly at Berlin’, but being disappointed’ in some promised employment from the French Court, went to England, where he completed his studies during a stay of three years at Cambridge.