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PLAGUE AT ALEXANDRIA.
for a short time before replying to him, but it was
not long ere my spirit reverted to Cairo, where
were my affectionate mother, my father, and my
brothers, whom I was desiring anxiously to see
again; and with tears in my eyes I answered him
that I could not make up my mind to part from
my relations. Colonel Missett approved of my
sentiments, and did not fail to recommend me to
Mr. Salt, begging him to employ me as inter-
preter in Arabic and Turkish, and assuring him
that I should prove very useful to him.
As the plague had already commenced its
ravages, we quitted Alexandria, travelling by
land, and towards evening we arrived at Rosetta,
where Mr. Lentz, the British agent, had already
exerted himself to get ready the necessary ar-
rangements for our passage by the river to Cairo; —
so that the day after our arrival at Rosetta we
went on board, accompanied by Mr. Lentz, who
was to direct us to a place called Ali Hamat,
where was encamped with some thousands of his
troops, Toussoun Pacha, son of his highness
Mohammed Ali. On our arrival here the Pacha
received us with military honours, causing us to
pass between two lines of soldiers extending the
whole way from the bank of the river to the tentf
PLAGUE AT ALEXANDRIA.
for a short time before replying to him, but it was
not long ere my spirit reverted to Cairo, where
were my affectionate mother, my father, and my
brothers, whom I was desiring anxiously to see
again; and with tears in my eyes I answered him
that I could not make up my mind to part from
my relations. Colonel Missett approved of my
sentiments, and did not fail to recommend me to
Mr. Salt, begging him to employ me as inter-
preter in Arabic and Turkish, and assuring him
that I should prove very useful to him.
As the plague had already commenced its
ravages, we quitted Alexandria, travelling by
land, and towards evening we arrived at Rosetta,
where Mr. Lentz, the British agent, had already
exerted himself to get ready the necessary ar-
rangements for our passage by the river to Cairo; —
so that the day after our arrival at Rosetta we
went on board, accompanied by Mr. Lentz, who
was to direct us to a place called Ali Hamat,
where was encamped with some thousands of his
troops, Toussoun Pacha, son of his highness
Mohammed Ali. On our arrival here the Pacha
received us with military honours, causing us to
pass between two lines of soldiers extending the
whole way from the bank of the river to the tentf