478 DEPARTURE FROM ALEXANDRIA. 
friend, the Surbaje, meant to accompany us, as his declarations "that 
no man who had once been in the English service, would ever quit 
it," might call down on him the resentment of the Turkish govern- 
ment, should hostilities actually take place. In the morning, for 
the first time, we found that the climate of Alexandria could be 
oppressive; a sultry air came over the desert from the S. E. and 
warned us to depart. We took an early dinner with our amiable 
and able friend, the Major, and were afterwards accompanied 
by him, and the other Europeans, to the Old Port, where Emim 
Aga was in waiting to take his leave. In the course of the night 
every one got on board, and at three we sailed with a moderate 
breeze. 
June 22,. — Our fair wind continued only two days, when it came 
round to the west ; and, as the Queen was a very bad sailer, un- 
coppered, and her masts too small, we made four points of lee-way 
and were even rejoiced in the evening, at finding we had made 
good a northerly course, by coming in sight of the mountains of 
Caramania, instead of Cyprus. Our stock of water was so short, that 
we determined to put into some place for a supply; this was chiefly 
owing to the number of passengers which the Captain had taken 
on board, consisting, besides my party, of Turks, horses, ostriches, 
antelopes, monkeys, jerboas, and parrots. These, with the live stock, 
consumed a great quantity of water, and rendered the ship very 
uncomfortable, though the Captain was a good creature, and would 
have kept them in better order if he could. 
June 2,3. — Though we stood in for the land, during the night, 
we were in the morning twenty miles from it. A Neapolitan cook, 
whom I had hired at Alexandria, was alone acquainted with the 
