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some of his. I found the pasha's cutter in attendance 
at the port to convey me on bdard. My friends embark- 
ed with me at one o'clock, and accompanied me to the 
ship, when I took leave of them. The ship immedi- 
ately, steered to the N. E. with a fair wind, and shortly 
afterwards we lost sight of the land. 
The ship I had embarked in, was large, but a bad 
sailer. The captain was the greatest brute possible. 
The moment we lost sight of land he no longer knew 
where we were, nor had he the talent to make a reckon- 
ing. Happily his mate undertook every thing, and the 
fool had no other care than to drink wine continually, 
and to sleep. There were several other passengers in the 
ship, namely, two merchants from Morocco, an officer 
of the pasha of Tripoli, two or three petty traders of 
Tripoli, a scherif marabout, named Mulei Hazen, who 
said he had been a great destroyer of the French du- 
ring the war in Egypt; five or six women, and a num- 
ber of pilgrims, who were going to Mecca; and were 
so miserable, that they had more the air of thieves, 
than persons going to fulfil the duties of religion. 
The sea has such an effect upon me, that every voy- 
age I take ruins my health, so that I found myself ex- 
tremely ill, and passed two days in bed. 
On the 29th, I was able to get up, and to make an 
astronomical observation, from which I ascertained, that 
instead of steering for Alexandria, we had deviated to 
the northward, so that the ship was almost in the Adri- 
atic sea, in the direction of Corfu. 
I hinted to the captain his error, and made him change . 
the point to E. and bear away for the coast of the Mo- 
rea, which w 7 e made after four days calm. We anchored 
at the island of Sapienza before the town of Modom 
