TRAVELS OF ALI BEY, 
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IN 
AFRICA AND ASIA. 
CHAPTER I. 
Passage to Rosetta. — Mouth of the Nile. — Rosetta. — Voyage to Cairo on 
the Nile. 
I CONTINUED the journey of my pilgrimage on 
Thursday the 30th of October 1806, after having 
passed five months and a half at Alexandria. I em- 
barked in a djerme, accompanied by some of the 
principal Scheiks of the town, who wished to remain 
with me in the vessel at least two hours longer. We 
then took leave of each other; and they returned in a 
boat. 
A djerme is a vessel with triangular sails, and has 
no deck. That in which I was embarked was a very 
large one; it had three masts, and a large sail upon 
each. The yards are fixed quite at the top of the masts; 
so that when they wish to take in any reefs of the sail, 
they must mount the whole length of the yard, which 
occasions a thousand accidents in these small vessels, 
particularly when the wind or waves are very rough. 
There does not a year pass without some of them 
being wrecked on account of this bad construction, 
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