330 FROM ASIA MINOR 
Major M' Arras — Descent of the Army — Battle, and 
Victory, of the Eighth of March — General Menou 
— Affair of the Twelfth — Action of the Tliirteejith — 
Battle of the Twenty-first — Sensation caused by the 
Death of Abercromhie — Measures pursued by his Suc- 
cessor — View of the Country — Journey to Rosetta — 
Mirage. 
IX. 1 HE impatience of our Captain to proceed 
' • " with his earo^o to the fleet, added to the weak 
rida sails state of thc author's health, made us eagfer to 
for Egi/jit. _ ^ 
leave Macri. Having got on board our stock of 
water, and our sheep from Abercromhie s Isle, a 
contrary wind prevailing, we beat out of the 
Gulph, and made our course for Egypt. The 
wide surface of the Libyan Sea was before us. 
We entertained anxious thoughts concerning 
the safety of our little bark, deeply laden, and 
ill-suited, either in her complement of mariners 
or in her construction, to encounter the deadly 
gales and the calms of the Mediterranean. 
Landsmen, however, are generally erroneous in 
their calculations at sea. The success of the 
voyage surpassed our most sanguine expecta- 
tions. A land-breeze came on soon after we 
had cleared the Gulph, the sea was unruffled, 
and we stole along, almost imperceptibly, with 
hardly a wind or any sensible motion, over 
a surface so tranquil, that a glass full of 
water might have remained upon deck without 
