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LIOHT Hcro.sic AT AQHI.CHAPTER I.Froni Boolac to Damietta-Insult oflfered to the British vice-consul, and atonementby the A^r-Stateof Damietta-Delay at the mouth of the Mle^Passageof die Boghaz-Passengers on board a rice vessel-Appearance of Jaffa-Interview with the Aga-Palliated accom^t of the massacre of Turkishprisoners by Buonaparte.HAVING made arrangements for proceeding to Damietta, Itook leave of Colonel Misset; and, in the evening of the15th of August, I began to descend the Nile in a smallcaiash or barge. The hdght of the inundation rendered thestream excessively rapid, my boat was carried down, andΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗR 2'I