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A series of adventures in the course of a voyage up the Red-Sea, on the coasts of Arabia and Egypt; and of a route through the desarts of Thebais, hitherto unknown to the European traveller, in the year M.DCC.LXXVII. in letters to a lady / by Eyles Irwin, esq. ; illustrated with maps and cuts.

  • Eyles Irwin
Date:
M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]
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Credit: A series of adventures in the course of a voyage up the Red-Sea, on the coasts of Arabia and Egypt; and of a route through the desarts of Thebais, hitherto unknown to the European traveller, in the year M.DCC.LXXVII. in letters to a lady / by Eyles Irwin, esq. ; illustrated with maps and cuts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 4] | lefs than twenty days from Yambo. At 9 A. M. we difcovered two more fail ahead. At ten we perceived a fhoal, which they call Morfa, fome leagues diftant ; and at noon, two of the boats appeared at anchor, within a point of land in the N. E. quar- ter. We ftood for them; but the wind had now fhifted to the “N..W. and it was the work of fome hours, to carry ourfelves within the reef where the largeft veffel was lying. We hooked our boat clofe by her about. 3 P. M. and underftand the bay we are in is called Banas. By our obfervation to-day it lies in the latitude of 24° 30’ north. Cape Mahar within view to the northward. We are much difappointed at finding what little pro- grefs we have made fince we left Yambo ; and particularly, after having been at fea to-day no lefs than fourteen hours. But our woyage bears an intimate refemblance to what the Greeks em- barked in of old; and by our mode of coafting alone, we can eafily conceive Ulyffes to have been ten years rounding the fhores of Greece ; without the intervention of any enmity, but what the mariner may expect from the winds and waves. In the evening we went on board the veffel by us. Her bur- den and accommodations place her far above the ftile of our boat; and we could not but repine at our lot, which had thrown us into an open boat, when it is plain that fome of them are pro- vided with cabbins. We were received very civilly by her noki- dah, who tells us that he is going to Suez. He is fickly, and was very thankful for fome medicines we fpared him, which we ‘brought with us for the complaint he 1s afflicted with. Thee, the Arabians never fail to folicit of Europeans, when they have occafion for them, as they have a notion that we have one and all of us, a fmattering in phyfic. The wind frefhened,. and blew all night from the N. W. as ufual. | TUESDAY, “a
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