Stephens, John Lloyd: Incidents of travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land: with a map and angravings (Band 2) (1837)

308

INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL.

had everywhere left behind him such a name that
it was a pleasure for an American to follow in his
steps; and here, too, I heard of the great fire which,
by the time it reached this distant land, had laid the
whole of my native city in ruins. In the midst of
my troubles, however, I had three things that gave
me pleasure. I met here my two friends with
whom I had mounted the cataracts of the Nile,
one of whom 1 hope one day to see in my own
countrv ; I received from the Austrian consul an
assurance that the passport of my Jew friend at
Hebron should be made out, and delivered forth-
with to his friend there ; and I saw Costigan's ser-
vant, from whom I obtained the map of the Dead,
Sea before referred to. For ten days I lay on the
deck of a little Austrian schooner, watching the
movements of a pair of turtle doves; and on the
morning of the eleventh I was again off the coast
of Egypt, and entering the harbour of Alexandria.
Here I introduced myself to the reader ; and here,
if he have not fallen from me by the way, I take
my leave of him, with thanks for his patient
courtesy.