CHAPTER II. 
WE started from Cairo on the 12th of January, for 
Damietta. The following are the names of the crew, as 
taken down by one of my compaions :— 
Reis Taha (Captain). 
Reis Ismail (steersman). 
Mohammed. 
Hassan. 
Ahmed. 
Alli. 
Alli el Safeéh, 
Ahmed Dar. 
Hassanin. 
Faguir. 
Mensoor. 
Selim. 
Machmoud (the companion of our walks, whom we 
afterwards took to the Faioum). 
Abdalla. 
Ahmed. 
Dragoman. 
Ahmed Abdalla (from Alexandria). 
Waiters. 
Stephano Rinaldini (a Swiss). 
Mohammed Ali. 
