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of them shortly afterwards made their appearance
and to our infinite satisfaction we found that one
of them contained our estimable Quaker friend,
Mr. P , whom we had left an invalid at Cairo,
and who has joined company with the Honourable
Mr. D , and Mr. S , all bound for the
place from whence we are returning.
At sunset four English flags were flying in
the little port of Mahatta; after our recent
isolation in Nubia, such a circumstance made us
almost fancy that we must have been at Spithead
! The illusion was increased by Mr. H
bringing us a file of Times Newspapers, which
transported us for awhile from the times of the
Pharaohs and the Ptolemies^ in which we have of
late "lived, and moved, and had our being," to
the work-a-day world of rail-roads and steam-
boats. Messrs. D— , S—, and P— , dined with us
in our Dahabieli ; and this morning we dispersed;
they to revel in the beauties of Philse—we to
make the best of our way to Es-souan.
It had been decided by the Reis of the Cat-
aract that our boat should be again lightened of
its freight to traverse the rapids, and that we, our
servants, and baggage should proceed by land
upon asses and dromedaries to Es-souan, while
Mohammed, the two Reis's, and as many of the
;