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— Travelling by night to avoid observation. — Jackals and Hyaanas encountered on the route. — Drunken companion. — Robbed of our camels. — Other animals obtained with difficulty. — Arrested by a party of Albanian mutineers. — Stripped of everything, and left naked in the Desert. — Dreadful suffering from wounds, hunger, and thirst. — Hos- pitality of a "Good Samaritan" Bedouin. — Arrival at Cos- seir. — New difficulties there. — Men blown from the cannon's mouth for mutiny. — Return to Keneh wi...thout effecting my object. My perilous and disastrous journey across the Desert from the Nile to the Red Sea forms so remarkable an incident in my life, that it will require and deserve a separate chapter for its record ; though I shall present it in a greatly abridged form from the Original Jour- nal in which it is transcribed, and which was written while all the circumstances were fresh in my recollec- tion in descending the Nile to Cairo, selecting such portions as may be necessary, (certainly less than PKEPARE TO CROSS THE DESERT TO COSSEIR.
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