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shut my eyes, and stop my ears, to prevent my servants 
and myself from becoming the victims of our com- 
passion. 
We continued our way at nine in the evening to- 
wards the west, across the valley, the slope of which 
conducted us after an hour's march to the sea side. 
Turning again towards the N. W. and N. N. W. along 
the sea shore, we halted at eleven to take repose. 
Wednesday ', 20th Mat/. 
The caravan was upon its way towards the N. W. 
at half past four in the morning. I hastened our pace in 
order to arrive the sooner at a fountain to obtain water. 
We arrived a little before noon at Port Almarhha, 
two miles to the east of the Cape of the same name, 
where we halted, and detached a party of our people 
with all the camels to procure water among the moun- 
tains, two leagues to the eastward. By a very good ob- 
servation of the sun, I fixed the latitude of the Cape at 
29° 1' 41" N.; the longitude I had found to be 30° A3' 
25" E. This Cape forms the southern extremity of the 
port called El Hamam Firaoun. There are to be seen 
fir bushes, the shade of which skreen the traveller from 
the scorching heat of the sun. 
The whole of the territory to the ravine called Wadi 
Corondel, is known by the name of El Hamam Fara» 
oun, or the Bath of Pharaoh, which name it has obtained 
in consequence of a small spring of hot sulphureous 
mineral water, to which the sick resort to bathe them- 
selves. 
We set out again about nine in the evening, and fol- 
lowed the sea-shore in a north-west direction to double 
the Cape. At half past ten, we turned to the N. and, 
N. N. W. ? and leaving the shore at mid- night, we 
