Light, Henry: Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Holy Land, Mount Libanon, and Cyprus in the year 1814 (London, 1818)

254 TRAVELS IN EGYPT, NUBIA,

I took leave of these people with regret, though not
at all sorry to be under cover at last; the rainy weather had
begun. I landed in the lazaretto at Malta, after an absence
of more than eight months.