He was just returning from his journey to Palestine.
I found the arrangements in the old quarantine-building rather more comfortable than those in the new; the establishment is moreover nearer the town, so that it is easier to obtain the necessaries of life.

On my return, my companion was so kind as to conduct me through the greater portion of the Turkish town, which appeared to be better built and more neatly kept than any city of the Turks I had yet seen.

The bazaar is not handsome; it consists of wooden booths, displaying only the most ordinary articles of merchandise.
On the same day that I quitted the quarantine-house, I rode in the evening to the Nile Canal, which is twenty-four feet broad and about twenty-six miles long.

A number of vessels lay there, on one of which a place had been taken for me (the smaller division of the cabin) as far as Atfe, for the sum of fifteen piastres.

I at once took possession of my berth, made my arrangements for the night and for the following day, and waited hour after hour till we should depart.