Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-02
GOVRRNOl SRWARDS JOURNEY FROM
EGYPT TO PALESTNE.
We copy from the Albany Journal the fol-
lowing extracts from two letters ately received
from Gov. Seward
ON BOARD rHs MAu BsooKti.
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MEouFHRANsAN 80, Fuduy Sept mn, isso |
As no steamboat would serve me for fort.
night, and would not 90 near relinquish a sight
of the Holy Land, ] took passage yesterday to, |
| gether with an English officer ami my courier /
on board this weasel, fruit boat belonging to |
Jaiis, the ancient Jopph. II is cruise like my |
voyage to Labrador, but attspded With much |
/ greater priyations aud incOnvcAienceB. The |
/ ship is a schooner of about 20 tons, her name,
| The Blest," is her only good TRAIT. There is
/ the captain and seven seamen, all Roman Cath> I
olic Christian Arabs, speaking tho Arabic Ian.
guage only. Although we chartered the vessel
exclusively, we were persuaded 70 let half
dozen Of the Jafa people go home on her deck
The captain, crew and all are very civil and kind
| to us. There are no berths no b0ds, no tables,
| no provisions, no dishes. We hastily extern
| poiized our arrangements A dozen chickens,
y bologna sausage, elk dozen eggs, with rico
and bread and tea, constitute our stores. -Four
pieces OF mating, laid two under us, one over
US, and one wrapped around the corner, serve
for our beds. The cabin is filled with dry sand
ior balllst and ants cockroaches and all kind
Of vermin inhabt it, We therefore sleep as well
| as eat on deck. The courier is our cook,
half barrel is our table, but we do not approach
il too near least It may expose us to ycrmin
For lack OF chairs we sit down on the deck and
screen ourselves from the sun well as we
can by the shade Of the sails. am usiug my
hat on my knee for writing desk. Scanty as
our comforts sIe, wo are luNunously appointed
and served compared with the other persons on
board. They lie and sleep in sun or shade and
cat know not how OF what. They prove them
selves TO be not Mussumen, but Christian, by
having a cross on their rosariea, but IN all else
they are as yeIitable Arabs the followers of
Islam could require. At least they SEEM
The days are hot, the nights delicious. The
waters blue aud blOod-waTm The moon and
stars magnificent, and just now fine breeze.
The length OF our voyage is about 800 miles we
are a day out, and as yet only so miles advan-
ced toward our destination, Winds and waves
forbid my writing more now.
SATURDAY, STILL ON BoARD THE Man BRooKAG.
Ulysses in the Odyssey laments that as he
had made no VOWS and "had no victims slain, -
Fate long Withheld favIring gale. But we,
though equally impious. have had taie winds.
: On the fl st day we ma 10 car exit from the
!. haSbor Of Alt xaudria, which is rendered very
dangerous by rocks and breakers. We passed
the Isle ofPharos. and for many miles moro the
coast is marked with the ruins and other deien-
ces built by the French in Bouap irte's memora
, BILE campaign of 1901 We passed through the
,s Bay Of Aboukir, the scene of the memorable
battle OF that name. Yesterday morning we
lost sight of Alexandria and its Light-Iiouses,
f. and in the evening we passed ,setta, an i'm
ne portant seaport in the Data This morning
se the third day or uur voyage, we looked out up
on coast indentel with sand hills and throng-
ed with many ships. Soon Dametta which I
at the eastern mouth of the Nile, appeared il
view The est is low and sandy the IN iuth o
= the river unseen, but the crowd OF shipping in
I dicated great seaport. We are cioeping from
that port towards Jaffa, having probably takeI
leave of Africa forever. The English ant
French have contested for supremacy often OF
its coasts, as Greeks and PersiRns, Romans am
Uarthagenians did-but / am sure that Airlc
will never fail under OF permit European sway
Neither its sandy coast, nor it's peculiar hal
savage people will ever admit Of European
habtations under he sway of Europeans.
We still live on good terms with our Syrian
seamen. They arc polite and attentive to US
But we live in disJinct groups. syria
Christian old woman is the only female. sh
II lives under tho lee of the small boats the dec
wrapped in a blanket She moves a dlstanc
Ui slx feet TO get the necessary change OF shade
Two Turks, MahOmetans, sleep ut the iaTthe
end of the boat in their costly embrodere
4 blue dresses, continually sea sick. The Syria
\ irut merchant, with his nice little grandson
" lives 10 the small boat night and day, and the
have opened il to me At tho present hour
is very attractive by being the only place !
which / can enjoy the breeze aud
protected by the calls from Il
eastern sun. The seaInen sing col
tinually Arabic songs The old woman
mother TO one of the seamen. She quarrv
with her son and scOlds the whole crew in h'
occasional waking hours during the day, ar
&C night gathers all the watch around her On
diseourses most mertiIy, TO the annoyance
us honest sleopeIs. on Damietta the sea
dirty and muddy from the flood Of the Nlle.-
But since we have passed that point the sea
blue as the violet. The nights are balmy an
the skies are bright | wOuder not that tt
dwelers on the MeJitenane an shore have 8
ways been poetic snd devotional. Farewell
Egypt long sought for, seen at last Far
well, AfTicR! the only region in the wor
which Providence seems to have fortified again
"a, civilization.
- On BoAaD THE MAHBRooTA, SUNDAY lot
Light breezes but fair, all night; Stars mul
piled, large and more brilliant tlan ever sa
The "milky way" an irregular white fee
stretching quite across the heavens. The ha
itual temper Of the East is patience aud ind
ference TO natural de 'elopements. This is I
third day OF our voyage, the beginning OF Il
fourth "JOpps 10 moTrowl" inquired | OF q
Captain, an Arabic Christian. I'll sha Allah
he replied, 'lf God pleases We gee no Ian
Is These primitive sailors carry no compass Ia
no observations, keep no reckoning, but sts
by landmarks when the eeaat is visible, and
aun. moon and stars when out at sea We hA
seen no land since we left Dametta but !
know by the rate at which we have sailed th
we are still of the African coaBt. II we 0
fortunate, the first land that we shall look up
will be in Syria Palestine, the high hills th
overlook GAIA, and str'ich behind Askalon.
The sea is a strange TecOncileT Of conflicts.
/ always thought that the understanding
early established between 81. Paul and his pl
fame companions, the crew and pass engers
n the vessel that was conveying him prisoner
. Rome, was the fruit Of the experience Of CO.
mon fears and dangers. The old man and
whom took for Greek Christians. turn out
be Jews from Algiers, going home to the la
of their forsiatheTs, 10 swat its prom sed res
ration under Messiah yet to come. Az
evening draws on, We are no longer obliged
seek hiding places from the sun; all the pass
Rers and Grew gather neartas after deck and Il
they hold what seems 70 ne Q pleatent cow
sation, forgetting ait their hatTeds, Jews, NJ
sulmen, 6feek and Catholic christians.
axhibit degree Of reverence for sacred nan
and things unknown Ia ouT part Of the wo
and all seem snimatedby spirit Of genial hi
ness.
We Feciproeate courtesies with all. A drea
life is this Of floating under canvass 10 East
climes. am becoming quite an Arab
without fork, with eonsiderable success, l
sleep soundly, shielded ir my mat on the d.
with the brilliant moon and stars watching Z
me. -
l1t.-,pi n r,.v thaa haatou 10 JoDDa thu