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4 t6r TO SUEZ. [CH.

commenced her survey at Suez, and com­
pleted on the Egyptian shores, to Cape Nose,
when she returned to Bombay to refit; and
on October the 12th, 1830, I was appointed
to her, and we sailed to complete her remain­
ing portion of the sea.

In narrating the leading occurrences of this
expedition, I shall confine myself to remarks
on the nature and general features of the
country, and information connected with the
inhabitants, which my several journeys have
enabled me to obtain, leaving such remarks
as are addressed exclusively to the mariner
to the sailing directions: proceedings or in­
cidents connected with our progress from

station to station, will also, unless in obvious
cases, be omitted.

After a tedious passage from India, we
entered the Straits of Jabal, and few countries
present themselves to the imagination of the
traveller under circumstances so well calcu­
lated to awaken a deep and lasting interest,
as those around us. From the earliest dawn
of history, the northern shores of the Red
Sea have figured as the scene of events which
both religious and civil records have united to