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CHAP, very numerous, and had stung several of the 
soldiers'. In the morning, we discovered that 
our tent was the only one remaining upon this 
station. The twelfth had marched before day- 
light. During our return to the fleet, we had 
greater difficulty than before in getting our boat 
over Aboukir Lake. 
Upon the twenty-fifth we again quitted the 
Braakel; and sailed for the caravanserai at the 
mouth of the Lake Maadie, determined to visit 
RosETTA. As there was not sufficient depth of 
water in the lake, we steered along the coast, 
and landed at the village of Utku, to the west cf 
an old castle upon the shore. The surf ran very 
high, and is here generally dangerous. We 
found the sand covered with human sculls and 
other bones, which the sea and the sun had 
whitened; the jackals having previously stripped 
them of every particle of flesh. These were 
described to us as the remains of those Turks 
who fell in the dreadful slaughter, when Buona- 
parte drove a whole army into the sea^. 
We had to cross a perfect specimen of the 
(1) One of the privates, who received a wound from a scorpion, los 
the upper joint of his fore-finger. 
(2) See a former note, in this Chapter, p. 336. 
