336 EGYPT. 
CHAP, issued, to convey the bodies for interment upon 
^-' ^ N'elsoiis Island, instead of casting them over- 
board. The shores of Egi/pt might in truth 
have been described as washed with blood. 
The bones of thousands were whitening, ex- 
posed to a scorching sun, upon the sands of 
u4bouMr^ . If we number those who had fallen 
since the first arrival of the French upon the 
coast, in their battles with the Turks'^, Aral-s, and 
English, we shall find no part of their own 
ensanguined territory so steeped in human 
gore. Add to this the streams from slaughtered 
horses, camels, and other animals, (the stench 
of whose remains was almost sufficient to raise 
a pestilence even before tlie arrival of the 
English,) and perhaps no part of the world ever 
presented so dreadful an example. When a 
land-wind prevailed, our whole fleet felt the 
(1) Between the village of [Ilko, and a place called the Caravanserai, 
^\•e saw the shore entirely covered with human sculls and bones. Dogs 
were raking the sands for human flesh and caiTion. I^'elson's Island 
became a complete charnel-house, wliere our sailors raised mounds of 
sand over the heaps of dead cast up after the action of the 2^tle. Even 
military men, who have published an account of the Expedition, have 
expressed the horror which these scenes excited; nor would anyone envy- 
that man his feelings who could view them with indifference. 
(2) Ten thousand Turks were drowned at once in the Bay of Aboulclr ,- 
being driven into the sea by Buonajmrte, after the slaughter of four 
thousand of their countrymen in the field of battle. See the Plate, repre- 
senting this dreadful massacre, in Dcnon's " Voyage (V Egyple," PI. 89. 
and also a narrative of the fact, p. 259. 
