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CHAPTER XI. 
March 10. — About ten we mounted the Pachas horses for the 
last time. Mr. Macardle and Mr. Aziz attended us. We passed by 
the Osbeckia, a large square covered with grain, but which the 
French had planted, and laid out in a very beautiful style. Every 
tree was however cut down by the Turks as soon as they were gone. 
Here was the palace of lElfi Bey, the best in the town, and where 
Bonaparte lived : it was set on fire by the Arnauts when they bom- 
barded Mohammed Pacha, who had fortified it, and the outer wall 
alone remains. Boulac is completely in ruins. It joined Cairo in its 
revolt against the French, though an open town, and was taken by 
storm in about a quarter of an hour. It was given up for three 
days to the plunder of the troops, who set it on fire in several 
places. Mr. Rosetti had here an excellent house and garden ; the 
latter was destroyed by the French, the former by the Turks. He 
has now a small house pleasantly situated on the river, with excel- 
lent warehouses. We here took our farewell breakfast, and about 
two embarked, taking Mr. Thomaso with us to secure supplies* 
The wind was tolerably fair, but our Rais, or Captain, had not all 
his people on boards and therefore crossed from side to side At 
length they came, and we set off in earnest. I was in a canja, the 
boat described by Mr. Bruce, and looked about for his main yard 
two hundred feet long ; ours was but one hundred ; though I under- 
