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to goby 5ea, than over Land, when one has any quantity of Goods. We 
ftaid then fome days a- (hoar, waiting for a fair wind to carry us on Board ; 
during which timCj I obferved that place as well as I could, though it 
fignified no great matter. 
Bouquer is a Caflle built upon a point of land, that runs out a little into Boufutr. 
the Sea. It is fquare, having on each corner a little Tower, mounted with 
fome fmall Guns, a Dungeon or great Tower in the middle, with a light 
Houfe on the top of ir, and a Mofque. The Caftle is like an Ifland, there 
being a gut of Sea- water two fteps over, betwixt it and the main Land, 
to which it is joined by a wooden Bridge, that joins to one of Stone; it 
is befide encompaffed all round with Rocks, but they have no other water, 
but what they fetch from à Well at a pretty diftance from the Caftle. 
Heretofore there was an Aquedu(fl that brought water from a Fountain, at 
the old port of Alexandria^ to this Caftle ; and this Aquedu6t is ftill to be 
feen. 
The Caftle has in it a great many Soldiers, commanded by a Muteferaca, 
but it does not feem to be well provided of Cannon ; for while I was at Caire, 
Papachin a famous Corfair, came with Spanifh Colours and took both an 
Englifli and a French Ship, that had put themfelves under the protection of 
itsfliot, the Caftle firing only two Guns; but the A^a was made Manfoul 
for it. It has fome Guns however, and two among the reft, whereof the 
one has the Arms of France, and the other of Marfeilles ; the Turks, (who 
are very bad Hiftorians) fay that they are as old as St. Lonis, who left them 
at Monfour near to Damiette. 
There is about a fcoreof Houfes near to this Caftle, and a little farther 
offi as many more; but the French are not fufFered to water at Bouquer.. 
Friday^ Saturday and Sunday, there blew fo violent a North wind, that on 
Friday night or Saturday Morning a Dutch Ship, called the Soldatero^ was 
caft away in the port of Alexandria : The evening before, that dilafter hap- 
pened, the Aga of the Block-houfe, fent word to the Captain of that Ship, 
that he fliould have a care of himfelf, that he thought his Ship made too 
much travel, and that he had beft put out another Anchor, but he flighting 
the advice, and his Cables firing in the night-time, the fliip ftruck againfl: 
the Rocks, withfo much Viôlence, that fhe broke into fmall bits no bigger 
than ones hand, (as Don PhtUppo who faw it told me) and eight Men Per- 
iflied. 
The fame night, a Ship of Mejfma which arrived at Bouquer two days before, 
broke her Cables, and having quickly got under Sail, to fave herfelf, was 
forced in by the Storm, near to Madia, not without danger of being wracked 
there, for it is almoft at the Mouth of the Nile, where there is no Water 
for a Veflel of any Burthen. Our fhip had alfo fome lhare in the danger, 
occafioned by that Storm, for fhe loft two Cables, and faved only one that 
held out ; The chief Mate alfo going in the Evening to the head, to fee if 
it was' not like to Fire, was thrown over Board, but five and twenty or 
thirty Ropes being immediately thrown out to>him, he caught hold of fome 
of them, and fo was pulled in. The Captain would have reckoned his Ship 
as good aâ loft, if that Mate had been caft away, for he confided much in 
him, and indeed, he was a skilful Sea-man. Infliort, if that Cable had given 
as the other two did, the Ship muft unavoidably have been loft, for they 
had not one good Cable more, having lain three or four Months at an 
Anchor. 
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