VIIT. 
ALEXANDRIA TO COS. 419 
from all parts of the Levant ; pilgrims, upon chap. 
their return from Mecca ; Tahtars, as couriers ; 
sixty jirabian horses, belonging to the Capudan 
Pasha, with their Arab grooms ; venders of 
coffee and tobacco, who had regular shops 
established in different parts of the ship; — 
and, to sum up the whole, a couple of English 
travellers, with their interpreter, a Greek, who 
was continually crossing himself at the scene of 
confusion he witnessed. 
The first day after our arrival on board this 
frigate, we received information that the Ceres 
was stationed at a small distance from the 
Turkish fleet. We hastened to pay our respects 
once more to our excellent friend Captain Russei, 
and to the officers of his ship ; but it was to 
take a last farewell of him. We had the melan- 
choly spectacle of beholding him almost in his 
last moments. The fever which he had caught 
in Cyprus had scarcely ever left him ; and Mr. 
(now Dr. John) Hume, the skilful surgeon of his 
ship, had given over every hope of his recovery. 
On the twenty-second, we received a visit from 
Captain Culverhouse of the Romulus : returning 
with him, we spent the day where we had 
before been so long and hospitably entertained, 
in company with the captains of other ships then 
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