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HOLY LAND, AND CYPRUS. 3?
Major Taburno, I procured a boat of about twelve or four-
teen tons, belonging to a respectable Arab Rais, large enough
to admit of my having a temporary cabin constructed on its
half-deck, composed of palm-branches covered with a double
set of mats, under which I had room for a wicker sofa for my
bed, a small camp table and chair, my baggage, a provision
of biscuit, and a Keenah jar, to filter the Nile water*. I
wore the European dress, and sometimes my uniform. My
servant's bed was laid at the foot of mine, and separated by
a mat; our arms suspended over our heads. On the 4th of
April, I left Boolac, provided with a strong firman from the
Kaya Bey, which contained an order to the Turkish chiefs to
treat me as one of the family of the Pasha; and a bill of
exchange on the treasury of Siout, for a supply of money.
* Henry Blount, talking of the water of the Nile, says, the water tastes just
like new milk, but somewhat nitrous; and if drank as from the river, troubled,
it causes to strangers a flux. They take a gallon or more of that water ; and if
they have not time to let it settle, they cast therein three or four bruised almonds,
which, in less than an hour, clarifies it like crystal; which effect they have upon
no other water, and therein is shown the perfection of that. P. 244, Pinker ton's
Collection, 10th vol.
The Keenah jar, being unglazed outside, acts as a filtering stone. I have tried
the effects of bruised almonds on the Nile water, even at sea ; and the water very
soon became quite clear. I cannot answer for the latter part of the assertion of
H. Blount, not having tried.
Major Taburno, I procured a boat of about twelve or four-
teen tons, belonging to a respectable Arab Rais, large enough
to admit of my having a temporary cabin constructed on its
half-deck, composed of palm-branches covered with a double
set of mats, under which I had room for a wicker sofa for my
bed, a small camp table and chair, my baggage, a provision
of biscuit, and a Keenah jar, to filter the Nile water*. I
wore the European dress, and sometimes my uniform. My
servant's bed was laid at the foot of mine, and separated by
a mat; our arms suspended over our heads. On the 4th of
April, I left Boolac, provided with a strong firman from the
Kaya Bey, which contained an order to the Turkish chiefs to
treat me as one of the family of the Pasha; and a bill of
exchange on the treasury of Siout, for a supply of money.
* Henry Blount, talking of the water of the Nile, says, the water tastes just
like new milk, but somewhat nitrous; and if drank as from the river, troubled,
it causes to strangers a flux. They take a gallon or more of that water ; and if
they have not time to let it settle, they cast therein three or four bruised almonds,
which, in less than an hour, clarifies it like crystal; which effect they have upon
no other water, and therein is shown the perfection of that. P. 244, Pinker ton's
Collection, 10th vol.
The Keenah jar, being unglazed outside, acts as a filtering stone. I have tried
the effects of bruised almonds on the Nile water, even at sea ; and the water very
soon became quite clear. I cannot answer for the latter part of the assertion of
H. Blount, not having tried.