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CH. XV.
on such subjects were recorded with thought and care, and his
opinions of men and things after his return, which I find entered
in his journal, will form the materials of the concluding chapters
of my narrative. I regret that I can only And space for a
limited number of extracts from the journal he kept during his
homeward journey. He wandered through Egypt, Palestine,
and part of Syria and Asia Minor, making his way to Constan-
tinople, and thence to Athens, the Morea, and Italy, arriving
in England in May 1829. Travellers whose expectations are
highly raised are generally disappointed. This was not the case
with Mr. Elphinstone. His enthusiasm never Ragged. The
journey was adventurous, as he passed through the Levant and
Greece in troublous times. The battle of Navarino was fought
three days after he left Bombay, and it required some enterprise
to work his way through the territories of a power with which
we were embroiled, some of the countries he visited being the
seat of war. The entries in the journal kept during these travels
abound in remarks on their social and political state, but its
chief interest consists in its containing the notes of a classical
tour in regions abounding in memorials of historical or poetic
interest, and made by a scholar, a statesman, and an acute
observer, some of the provinces visited by him lying out of
the ordinary track of travellers.
I must pass rapidly over the hrst part of the journey. He
started from Bombay in company with Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Lushington, Mr. Steele, whose name has been already men-
tioned in the preceding chapter, and two medical gentle-
men, one of whom accompanied him in the tour in the
Levant. The vessel touched at Mocha, and tbence proceeded
to Cosseir, from which they reached the Nile, and visited the
remains of Karnak and Thebes, under the guidance of Mr. (after-
wards Sir Gardiner) Wilkinson ; and after a fortnight passed
among these remains of ancient civilisation the party proceeded
by water to Cairo, which they reached on February 2, 1828.
They remained here only ten days, and then passed on to
Alexandria, to make preparations for their tour in Syria and
Asia Minor. Except for casual allusions to passing events, one
Zf/f ^TlZ72272Z/22<3?^ Z^7^272jZ72^.
CH. XV.
on such subjects were recorded with thought and care, and his
opinions of men and things after his return, which I find entered
in his journal, will form the materials of the concluding chapters
of my narrative. I regret that I can only And space for a
limited number of extracts from the journal he kept during his
homeward journey. He wandered through Egypt, Palestine,
and part of Syria and Asia Minor, making his way to Constan-
tinople, and thence to Athens, the Morea, and Italy, arriving
in England in May 1829. Travellers whose expectations are
highly raised are generally disappointed. This was not the case
with Mr. Elphinstone. His enthusiasm never Ragged. The
journey was adventurous, as he passed through the Levant and
Greece in troublous times. The battle of Navarino was fought
three days after he left Bombay, and it required some enterprise
to work his way through the territories of a power with which
we were embroiled, some of the countries he visited being the
seat of war. The entries in the journal kept during these travels
abound in remarks on their social and political state, but its
chief interest consists in its containing the notes of a classical
tour in regions abounding in memorials of historical or poetic
interest, and made by a scholar, a statesman, and an acute
observer, some of the provinces visited by him lying out of
the ordinary track of travellers.
I must pass rapidly over the hrst part of the journey. He
started from Bombay in company with Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Lushington, Mr. Steele, whose name has been already men-
tioned in the preceding chapter, and two medical gentle-
men, one of whom accompanied him in the tour in the
Levant. The vessel touched at Mocha, and tbence proceeded
to Cosseir, from which they reached the Nile, and visited the
remains of Karnak and Thebes, under the guidance of Mr. (after-
wards Sir Gardiner) Wilkinson ; and after a fortnight passed
among these remains of ancient civilisation the party proceeded
by water to Cairo, which they reached on February 2, 1828.
They remained here only ten days, and then passed on to
Alexandria, to make preparations for their tour in Syria and
Asia Minor. Except for casual allusions to passing events, one