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hurried on board a covered boat upon the lake, in ^yll' 
which he was accustomed to pass the night, *• '■^'•' ' 
and made his appearance no more on that 
evening. All hopes of a passage on board the 
frigate seemed therefore, for a moment, at an end. 
But Isaac BcT/, the Capudan Pashas interpreter 
and secretary, conducted the author to his own 
tent, and, pleading a sudden indisposition on 
the part of his master, promised to accommo- 
date matters ; begging, at the same time, that 
the Pashas behaviour might not be noticed at 
head-quarters, and desiring us to call again 
upon the sixteenth. 
A curious adventure befel us upon our return 
for the second time this evening, Monday, Sep- 
tember the fourteenth, into Alexandria. The 
English sentinels had advanced from their 
former stations, close to the gates of the gar- 
rison; the first division of the French army 
having this day embarked at Aboukir. The luord 
for the night, as given by the French General 
for passing the gates, was " Citoyen'' As the 
author rode up to the Rosetta Gate, hearing a 
distant challenge somewhat indistinctly, and 
supposing he had passed all the English sen- 
tinels, he gave the zvord as he had been in- 
.structed to do hy the French. Presently, drawing 
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