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CHAPTER XII. 
May 50. — Our first business, on our arrival, was to visit the vessel 
that had arrived from Malta, which we found to be sufficiently large 
to accommodate our party, and stow my baggage, after having re- 
ceived all the articles she could procure at Alexandria ; I therefore 
immediately agreed ^"^'-- uxc C^iptain for my passage, and prepared 
for deparlu^. 
On the^3d, at the request of Emim Aga, I accompanied him in 
his barge tm^ board the Turkish frigate, which he commanded as 
Commodore. Hi^ boatmen were very well dressed, and as we rowed 
by her in the Old Harbour, ^cach merchantman hoisted her colours, 
and saluted with three guns. The frigate, on our appearing on 
deck, fired thirteen guns by the order of Emim Aga, who shewed 
us over the whole ship, which was old and ill constructed, so much 
so, indeed, that there was a difference of six inches in her height 
between decks, on one side and the other. The same military com- 
pliments were paid on our visiting a corvette, which was kept in 
excellent order, having her brass guns highly polished, and her 
decks as clean as a room in a house. We were here presented with 
oranges, and some very fine apples from Rhodes, by the Captain, 
who was a Greek. I requested the Governor to go on board our 
vessel, the Queen, which he did, and was received with the same 
military honours that he had paid to me. 
