Travels in Turkey, Asia Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt ...

SYRIA, EGYPT, GERMANY, &C. 1 57
wounded, and, on his being brought before him, made him a va-
luable present, requesting, at the same time, that he would neves
again appear in his presence,
forcune.
lest it should remind him of his mis-
In returning to the ground of the encampment, the procession
moving in the same order as in setting our, a corps of Turkish ca-
valry, Dehlis, galloped forward, and took possevssion of a height*
A sham attack being made on them, a heavy firing of musketry and
pistols, discharged in the air, was kept up, the balls with which
they were charged flying, as usual, in every direction.
Anions the new levies which were daily pouring in to the Turk-
ish camp, were several individuals who had suffered an amputation
of the nose. This being the punishment inflicted by Djezzar Pacha
at Acre, plainly indicated whence they came.
A Pacha, with a corps of about four hundred men, arrived in the
camp on the 16th. The mission about this time suffered great inconvenience
from the difficulty of procuring a necessary supply of
provisions.
On the 20th, Captain Leake was ordered to hold himself in readiness
to proceed
with despatches to the commander in chief: and
on the following day the janissaries, with another party of troops,
marched from the camp, on their way to Yebna— a sufficient indication
that the active military operations were on the eve of com-
mencing.
Several other detachments quitted the encampment on the 23d ;
and we were ordered to hold ourselves in readiness for the 23th in
the morning, beyond which time the marc!) of the Vizier, with the
remainder of his armv, was not to be delayed.
In quitting Jaffa, some description of the country in which wc
had resided for such a
length
of time may reasonably be expected
been enabled
from me, in addition to the information I have already
to give, in detailing the particulars of my occasional excursions
from the camp.
'
I shall therefore close the present chapter with
a brief sketch of the most interesting particulars
1 was able to col-
lect, during my stay in this part of Syria ; and shall afterwards resume
my narrative of general occurrences, which will thus have
suffered onlv a momentary interruption.
A general idea of the climate of Syria may be formed from the
following paniculars r— During our stay there, the thermometer,
in the months of July, August, and September, marked the highest,
in the afternoon, from ninety-three to ninety-five degrees of