Our barge was the first pleasing object we saw, about two hundred yards from the spot where she sunk.

After drying everything that was useful by the heat of the sun, and loading ourselves with necessaries from the stores on board, we set out to recover our lost ground, and found, by the nearest calculation, we had been carried over garden-walls, and a variety of enclosures, above one hundred and fifty miles.

In four days, after a very tiresome journey on foot, with thin shoes, we reached the river, which was now confined to its banks, related our adventures to a boy, who kindly accommodated all our wants, and sent us forward in a barge of his own.

In six days more we arrived at Alexandria, where we took shipping for Constantinople.

I was received kindly by the Grand Seignior, and had the honour of seeing the Seraglio, to which his highness introduced me himself..