The hospital has the appearance of a private house.
I was astonished at the high commission which is here demanded on changing small sums of money.

In changing a collonato, a coin very much used in this country, and worth about two guilders, the applicant must lose from half a piastre to two piastres, according to the description of coin he requires.

If beshliks {261} are taken, the commission charged is half a piastre; but if piastres are wanted, two must be paid.

The government value of a collonato is twenty piastres; in general exchange it is reckoned at twenty-two, and at the consulate's at twenty-one piastres.
DEPARTURE FROM ALEXANDRIA.
September 7th.
At eight o'clock in the morning I betook myself on board the French steam-packet Eurotas, a beautiful large vessel of 160-horse power.
At nine o'clock we weighed anchor.
The weather was very unfavourable.

Though it did not rain, we continually had contrary winds, and the sea generally ran high.