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238 TRAVELS IN EGYPT, NUBIA,
sible to describe the state of confusion on board. There was
no stowage for the passengers, who lay on the deck in all
directions, and almost prevented the sailors from managing
the vessel. I had endured much inconvenience in the last
seven months, and on board the different coasting vessels
had never been under cover; yet my patience had not been
exhausted: here, however, it was lost; and, as I knew my
voyage to Constantinople would occupy at least three weeks,
I determined to disembark at Cyprus, where the vessel
touched to take in provisions for the voyage ; and accord-
ingly, after three comfortless days and nights on board, I
landed at Larnica* on the 26th of September, having seen
the shore appearing on the east in a tract of low land, and
on the west in a range of high mountains, the evening
before.
Here, in expectation every day of obtaining a passage
in a vessel where the accommodations would be better, I was
detained three weeks; and was at last, from so much time
having elapsed, obliged to give up the thoughts of my expe-
* Larnica, called by father Jerome D'Andini, " Arnique." See Pinkerton's
Collection, vol. x. p. 277. It appears to have been only a monastery, one mile
distant from Salina (La Scala), of Franciscan monks, who lived there for the
convenience of Italian monks.
sible to describe the state of confusion on board. There was
no stowage for the passengers, who lay on the deck in all
directions, and almost prevented the sailors from managing
the vessel. I had endured much inconvenience in the last
seven months, and on board the different coasting vessels
had never been under cover; yet my patience had not been
exhausted: here, however, it was lost; and, as I knew my
voyage to Constantinople would occupy at least three weeks,
I determined to disembark at Cyprus, where the vessel
touched to take in provisions for the voyage ; and accord-
ingly, after three comfortless days and nights on board, I
landed at Larnica* on the 26th of September, having seen
the shore appearing on the east in a tract of low land, and
on the west in a range of high mountains, the evening
before.
Here, in expectation every day of obtaining a passage
in a vessel where the accommodations would be better, I was
detained three weeks; and was at last, from so much time
having elapsed, obliged to give up the thoughts of my expe-
* Larnica, called by father Jerome D'Andini, " Arnique." See Pinkerton's
Collection, vol. x. p. 277. It appears to have been only a monastery, one mile
distant from Salina (La Scala), of Franciscan monks, who lived there for the
convenience of Italian monks.