420 ALEX/\NDRIA TO COS. 
CHAP, at anchor in the bay. Here we received the' 
VIII. ... 
V .y ,/ news of Nelson's glorious victory at Copen- 
hagen, adding to those triumphs of our beloved 
country which we had witnessed in Egypt ; and 
the more highly gratifying to us, as, during our 
residence in Alea:cmdria, the French had industri- 
ously circulated a report that Nelson had been 
defeated. Upon the tiventy-third, at day-break, 
we were under weigh, and soon lost sight of 
the British fleet. Having thus detailed every 
particular of our voyage and travels in the most 
interestino- reoion which it was our fortune to 
visit, and perhaps more minutely than was- often 
necessary, the remainder of this section, relating 
to the rest of our observations and adventures 
m\hQ East, may be given less circumstantially; 
because they will be found to have reference to 
countries better known, and where a strict 
attention to every notice of time and season, if it 
ever be of consequence, is here certainly of 
little moment. 
We had not been long on board the Turkish 
irigate, before we began to perceive what sort 
of fare we were likely to expect. Every article 
of food we had brought with us speedily disap- 
peared among the motley tenants of the ward- 
room. Muddy coffee, unsophisticated by any 
