Notes Of An Overland Journey Through France And Egypt To Bombay By The Late Miss Emma Roberts





















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It was half-past nine o'clock, on the evening of the 4th of October,
1839, that we arrived at the - Page 105
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It Was Half-Past Nine O'clock, On The Evening Of The 4th Of October, 1839, That We Arrived At The Port Of Boulak.

We expected to find some person in waiting to give us the pass-word, and thus enable us to

Get into Cairo, the gates of the city being closed at nine o'clock. Depending upon the attendance of the hotel-keeper at Cairo, who had been apprised of our approach, we had not put the janissary on shore, as we ought to have done, at the British Consul's country-house, who would have furnished us with a talisman to pass the gates. We sent Mohammed and the janissary on shore, to see what could be done. Including the voyage up the canal, Miss E. and myself had passed (we could not say slept) three nights on board a boat, the first without an attempt at repose, the two latter lying down in our dressing-gowns upon thin mattresses, stretched upon hard boards; we, therefore, could not very easily relinquish the endeavour to procure a bed during the time which would intervene between the period (an hour before day-light) in which the gates of the city would be open.

I had a letter to the British Consul, which I gave Mohammed, telling him to try the effect of bribery upon the guardians of the city. During his absence, the Arab captain, feeling that we were left under his protection, came and seated himself beside us, outside the cabin-door.

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