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HOLY LAND, AND CYPRUS. 139
moment: I never saw any disembarkation more expeditiously
performed.
On landing, I collected my baggage, placed my servant
sentry over it, and sent a Greek servant I had hired at Da-
mietta, at the recommendation of the vice-consul there, with
my letters to the Hospitium and vice-consul of Jaffa; and
finding he did not speedily return, set out in search of him;
having passed the aga and his attendants, whose quality I
did not know, who looked with some surprise at my appear-
ance, and made anxious inquiries whether I was hakeem, or
merchant. Having arrived at the vice-consul's house, I was
shown through some narrow passages and dirty courts, in
which were gronpes of Jews and Jewesses, on their way to
Jerusalem. The dirt, noise, and appearance of the place,
made me think I could hardly find lodging; and imagining
that my letter to the Hospitium would ensure me a recep-
tion, I begged to be shown there. On my wa}r, I met the
vice-consul, and -was amused by his mixture of European
and Eastern dress. He was an old man, of about sixty-five
years of age, with a European countenance; wore a three-
cornered hat, with gold lace button-hole; his hair tied in a
long plaited tail behind. The rest of his dress was Eastern.
He welcomed me in French, and, in an open way, offered
me his house, and seemed rather hurt at my desiring to go to
the Hospitium; where, on my arrival, the superior evinced
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moment: I never saw any disembarkation more expeditiously
performed.
On landing, I collected my baggage, placed my servant
sentry over it, and sent a Greek servant I had hired at Da-
mietta, at the recommendation of the vice-consul there, with
my letters to the Hospitium and vice-consul of Jaffa; and
finding he did not speedily return, set out in search of him;
having passed the aga and his attendants, whose quality I
did not know, who looked with some surprise at my appear-
ance, and made anxious inquiries whether I was hakeem, or
merchant. Having arrived at the vice-consul's house, I was
shown through some narrow passages and dirty courts, in
which were gronpes of Jews and Jewesses, on their way to
Jerusalem. The dirt, noise, and appearance of the place,
made me think I could hardly find lodging; and imagining
that my letter to the Hospitium would ensure me a recep-
tion, I begged to be shown there. On my wa}r, I met the
vice-consul, and -was amused by his mixture of European
and Eastern dress. He was an old man, of about sixty-five
years of age, with a European countenance; wore a three-
cornered hat, with gold lace button-hole; his hair tied in a
long plaited tail behind. The rest of his dress was Eastern.
He welcomed me in French, and, in an open way, offered
me his house, and seemed rather hurt at my desiring to go to
the Hospitium; where, on my arrival, the superior evinced
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