On
The 20th, He Issued Orders For Every One To Embark In Two Days.
On the
22d the Pacha embarked, and dropt down four miles below Suez to the
point of Pharaoh, where he anchored in four fathoms water on a good
bottom.
This place is seven miles from the pits of Moses. Seven men died
here.
[Footnote 215: This is surely some mistake, it being next to impossible
that so few men should surround and overpower so great a number of armed
soldiers. - Astl. I. 89. d.]
On the 27th of June the whole fleet left Suez with the wind at N.W. and
before night cast anchor at a place called Korondol, 60 miles from
Suez; at which place Moses divided the sea by stretching out his rod,
and Pharaoh was drowned with all his host. At this place, which may be
considered the commencement of the Red Sea, we had 12 fathoms water, and
lay at anchor all night. Leaving Korondol on the 28th, we sailed 33
leagues to the S.E. and cast anchor two hours before night at a place
called Tor, where there are many Fransciscan friars who supplied the
fleet with water. This place is a days journey and a half from Mount
Sinai, where is the church and monastery of St Catharine, in which the
body of that saint is reposited. We remained five days at Tor, in five
fathoms water. We departed from Tor on the 3d of July, and came behind a
dry sand bank about a mile from the shore and 40 miles from Tor, where
we cast anchor in 12 fathoms water at a place named Kharas, where we
remained two days to inspect the two ships which carried the stores.
Leaving Kharas on the 5th, we came to an island named Soridan 40 miles
from the coast, the whole days course from sunrise to sunset being 100
miles.
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