[Footnote 46: Notwithstanding this precept, M. Pauw
(Recherches sur les Egyptiens, tom. ii. p. 192, edit.
Lausanne) represents the Bedoweens as the implacable enemies
of the Christian monks. For my own part, I am more inclined
to suspect the avarice of the Arabian robbers, and the
prejudices of the German philosopher.
Note: Several modern travellers (Mr. Fazakerley, in
Walpole's Travels in the East, vol. xi. 371) give very
amusing accounts of the terms on which the monks of Mount
Sinai live with the neighboring Bedoweens. Such, probably,
was their relative state in older times, wherever the Arab
retained his Bedoween habits. - M.]