34 MOUNT HOREB. 



were most accommodating persons, and we got 

 on admirably together. On the thii-d day we 

 passed Mount Horeb, of which we had a good 

 view, and here it may not be out of place to 

 mention that the Arabs declare that the chil- 

 dren of Israel crossed over from Egypt at that 

 part of the Red Sea opposite to the Bir-ool 

 Moosa, or Wells of Moses, which supply Suez 

 with its [very indifferent] water, and take their 

 name from that estimable patriarch. They 

 also, according to their traditions, name that 

 part of the Red Sea the Hummam-ool-Pharaoon, 

 or Bath of Pharaoh, where that monarch's host 

 is supposed to have perished. 



Amongst our passengers we had an entire 

 company, one hundred strong, of the Royal 

 Engineers, with six officers, all very suj^erior 

 men, as officers of engineers generally are. The 

 soldiers so completely occupied the deck that it 

 was difficult to move from end to end of the 

 vessel ; but they were so orderly and well be- 

 haved, and the arrangements of the Pekin so 

 excellent, that little inconvenience resulted, ex- 

 cept to the poor fellows themselves, who must 

 have suffered greatly from the heat, which was 

 daily increasing. On the fourth day of our 



