78 RETURN TO EGYPT. 
We left Cyprus on the sixteenth of June, 
steermg for the coast oi Egypt, and first made 
land off Damiata. Thence passing round a 
head-land, called Cape Brule, we saw again the 
whole coast of the Delta, as far as the Rosetta 
branch of the Nile, We arrived in Ahoulcir Bay 
upon the morning of the twentieth. An alarm 
had been given at day-break, as vv^e drew near 
to the fleet, of smoke issuing from a frigate on 
Loss of the fire. It proved to be the Iphigenia, Captain 
piigcma. gf^^j^pgi^^ which ship we had so lately seen at 
Cyprus. She broke from her mooring as we 
were sailing towards her, and, passing through 
all the fleet, discharged her guns as they grew 
hot, but without doing any mischief. Exactly 
at nine o'clock, the very instant we let go our 
anchor, she blew up, and presented a tre- 
mendous column of smoke and flame, being- 
then close in with the shore. We beheld the 
explosion from our cabin windows. After it 
took place, not a vestige of the ship remained. 
We breakfasted with Captain Russel, and took 
leave of the crew : the Braakefs barge then 
coming alongside, we left the Ceres. 
We had been only two days in the fleet, 
when, being on board the Dictator, Captain 
Hardy, to attend a court-martial held in conse- 
quence of the loss of the Iphigenia, Captain 
