I endeavoured in vain to explain to him where I wanted to go; he could not be made to understand me.

Nothing now remained for me but to accost every well-dressed Oriental whom I met, until I should find one who could understand either French or Italian.

The third person I addressed fortunately knew something of the latter language, and I begged him to tell my guide to take me to the Austrian consulate.

This was done, and my troubles concluded.
A ride of three quarters of an hour in a very broad handsome street, planted with a double row of a kind of acacia altogether strange to me, among a crowd of men, camels, asses, etc., brought me to the town, the streets of which are in general narrow.

There is so much noise and crowding every where, that one would suppose a tumult had broken out.