The wine is very cheap; I bought a bottle containing about three pints for a piastre.

As soon as we were again at sea, our worthy captain gave out that he wished to call at Damietta.

My patience was at length exhausted.

I called him a cheat, and insisted that he should bend his course to no other port than to Alexandria, otherwise I should have him brought before a judge if it cost me a hundred piastres.

This remonstrance produced so much effect upon the captain, that he promised me not to cast anchor any where else; and, marvellous to relate, he kept his word.
One other circumstance occurred during this journey which is interesting as furnishing a sample of the heroism of the modern Greeks.
On the 5th of August, about noon, our sailors discovered a two- masted ship in the distance, which altered her course immediately on perceiving our vessel, and came sailing towards us.