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

424
Military Mission, names of officers
composing the, 17
——— , ceremony attending their
introduction to the Grand Vizi-
er, 21
Millar, Captain, present from the
Capitan Pacha for the widow of,
Mimosa Nilotica, 24.8
Minage, account of this singular
visual deception, 206
Mito, inhabitants of, not attacked
by the plague, 62
Mokatam, description of Mount,
251
Mosque of Santa Sophia at Constantinople,
39, 52, 86
Mosques of Constantinople, interior
of, 86
Muczins, criers, stationed in the
minarets of the mosques to call
the people to pray, 25
Mufti of Jerusalem, visit from, 123
Mummies, plain of the, description
of the catacombs in the, 242
Mussulmen, heads of decapitated,
placed under their arm, 144
Mustapha, General, alias Campbell,
account of, 184
Navy, Turkish, little encouragement
to the
surgeons
of the, 41
want of strict dis-
,
cipline in the, 41
Nightingale, notes of the, heard in
the desert of Theah, 206
Nile, subsiding of the inundation
of the, 275
—— , inundation of, 254
, voyage on the, from Cairo
to Alexandria, 253, 289
, observations on the rise and
fall of the, in 1801, 285
, mud deposited by the ana-
lysis of the, 289
Nilometer, description of the, at
Cairo, 230, 285
————— , French, inscription on
the, 230
Obelisk, granite, in the Atmeydan
at Constantinople, 39
Olives, Mount of, 128
INDEX.
Ophthalmia, prevalence of this disease,
118, 228
— ', causes thereof, 118
" '' , dissertation on the
causes, symptoms, and cure, of
the Ophthalmia of Syria and
Egypt, 391
Ostriches, mode of hunting them,
2 93
—— ,
their eggs suspended as
ornaments from the roofs of the
mosques, 293
Ottoman Empire, tradition relative
to the downfal of the, 172
Ovid, tcwer of, 52
Partridges, Egyptian, 275
Patmcs, island and town of, de-
scription of the, 91
Pear- trees, prickly, employed as
fences at Jaffa, 106
Philistines, view of the land of
the, 186
Pilgrims, lake of, 276
Plague, the, singular mode of communicating,
80
——— ,
many persons die of, at
Jaffa, 107, 146
symptoms and predisposing
causes of, 109
, remarks on, 152
-, singular fact relative to
the, 184
-, communicated by mean;
of a pelice, 185
., indifference of the Turks
to the 201
-, details relative to the, 236
252, 273, 279, 292, 355
-, frictions with warm oil for
prevention and cure of the, 355,
357
, cases of, 355, 372
-, historical journal of, de-
tails relative to the causes, symptoms,
cure, &c. of the, 376
Plane-tree, immense, at Stancho,
93
Police, wretched state of, at Con-
stantinople, 83
Pompey's Pillar, at Alexandria,
257