344- TRAVELS IN UPPER 



CHAP. XX. 



Journey to Aboukir — Ruins — Bedouins — Port and 

 road for ships — Jew drogman— Red partridges — 

 Ruins of Canopus — Colossal and fluted statue— 

 Canopus — Governor, castle, and village of Abou- 

 kir — Little Pyramid — Return to Rossetta. 



Between Rossetta and Alexandria there re- 

 mained for me still another place to examine, 

 formerly celebrated under the name of Canopus, at 

 the present day the Aboukir of the Arabs, and, by 

 corruption, the Bequie of European navigators. 

 Iknew that it was well worth seeing, and I de- 

 parted for the purpose of visiting it on the 12th 

 of November. M. Forneti, drogman at Rossetta, 

 had an extreme desire to accompany me, and we 

 took with us a janisary, my draughtsman, and 

 two servants. 



Mounted upon mules we scaled the hills of 

 sand ; the arid and moving rampart which en- 

 circles the city of Rossetta to the westward. We 

 entered into the plain of the Turrets or Pillars*, 

 we afterwards gained the shore of the sea, which 

 we followed up to the lake of Maadie. 



* See page 206. 



A flock 



