We had scarcely reached the house of the viceconsul of France, when we met Taleb, Bechara, and all our faithful Arabs, expecting our arrival. They came to receive our orders for guiding us through Al Arish, and the Desert, to Jerusalem; but our recent experience of travelling by water had so charmed us, this means of transport seemed to us so preferable to that which the Arabs offered,—and our opinions on the subject were so completely adopted by M. Linant and the vice-consul, that it was finally resolved we should go by sea to Jaffa.

We quitted our Arabs as old and true friends; and it was not without some sorrow of heart, that we cast a last glance on the dromedaries, which, kneeling and motionless, with their gazelle-like eyes fixed upon us, seemed to protest against our objections to the unpleasantness of their motions. They soon, however, proved to us that they had lost none of their agreeable habits; they rose up in two motions, according to the classic custom of the Desert, and carried off their cavaliers in a round trot, that would unseat a cuirassier.

The preparations for our little voyage were soon complete; the jerm which we had hired was about twenty feet long, and was manned by three Turkish sailors, that is to say, three grave personages exclusively occupied in smoking from long pipes the best tobacco of Latakia.

In order to profit by the morning breeze in clearing the Boghaz, (mouth of the Nile,) we left Damietta at six o'clock.

Just as we were pushing off, a Turk came up to Baron Taylor, and besought him for the hospitality of a passage to Jaffa. The joy of the suppliant was extreme, when told that his request was granted. He entered the bark, and hastened to supply his pipe with the tobacco belonging to our sailors. He then joined the group, and soon raised a column of smoke, which might have induced those who saw our progress, without perceiving anybody working the ship, to suppose that we were propelled by some novel kind of steam machinery.

The banks of the Nile near its mouth, are very productive, and are laid out in rice-fields; trees became more rare as we advanced; but the figure of the banks did not change, they were sloped by an imperceptible declivity to the sea. In some places the river was three quarters of a league wide; in others it narrowed to a quarter; the breadth at the mouth, as well as I could judge, was about a league and a-half.

The currents are rapid; and the bed, filled with rocks rising to the level of the water, presents considerable difficulties to the navigator. The owner of the jerm, carelessly stretched at his full length upon the deck, gave his orders to the two sailors; he

twice threw us into the breakers; and I must do him the justice to say, that he did not appear in the least excited by the danger we encountered. At nine o'clock, we were in the open sea, gliding over its level surface, propelled by a fresh breeze, blowing right off the land.

It was the last adieu of the empire of the Pharaohs; the last sight of the mysterious land of Egypt, which soon only rose above the sea as a narrow band of verdure like a sea-serpent, and which, when evening came, disappeared in a sky of purple and gold. Our eyes were turned to this glittering point, until it was veiled by night, which curtained the entire horizon with a uniform shade. A prospect was no longer in view, but still we did not close our eyes; expectation kept us awake; for at day-light we hoped to salute the Holy Land.

THE END,

LONDON :-JOHN W. Parker, ST. MARTIN'S Lane.

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