The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-02-11
GOV, SEWARD IN THE EAST.


JOURNEY or GOV. SEWARD FROM EGYPT Te
. n PALESTINE. t@s.'*
Frtm Dc s4ltany Epeniag Journal
WE have been permitted to copy the
following extracts from two letters lately
received from Gov. Seward.
!. ON BoARp THE Man BaooKA,l
Mediterranean Sea, Sep9l7, % 8. e
A no steamboat would serve me for
q fortnight, and i would not so near re-.
linquish q sight of the Holy Land, / took
Z passage yesterday, together with an
English officer and my courier, ON board
i this yessel+4-a fruit.boat belonging 10
JatEa, the ancient Joppa. 1T is a cruise
like my voyage 70 Labrador, but attend
ed with much greater priYations and in
c0nyeniences. The ship Is d schooner Of
about 70 tons. her name The Blest, is her
i only good trait. There is the captain
/, and seven seamen, all Roman CathoIic
Christian Arabs, speaking The Arabic
language only. They prove
themselves to be not Mnssnlmen. but
Christians, by having cross on their
i rosaries, but IN allselse they are as veri
table Arabs as the followers Of Islam
could require.
=. ... SATURDAY, 18th, n
Still on board the Nah Brooka.
Ulysses in,the Odyssey lameBts that
as he had made no VOWS and chad no
victims slain, /" Fate long Withheld a
fayoring gale. But we, Though equally
impious, have had fair winds. On The
first day we made onr exit from the
harbor Of Alexandria, which is rendered
very dangerous by rocks and breakers.
We passed the isle Of Pharos, and for
many miles more the coast is marked
with the ruins of the forts and other de-
fences built by the French in Bonaparte's
memorable campaign Of 1904. We
passed through the Bay Of sAboukir, the
scene of the memorable battle of that
name. Yesterday morning we lost sight
d Alexandria and its lighthouses, and
IN the evening we passed Rosetta. an inn
,aPortant seaport in the Delta. Thismom-
ing, the third day of our voyage, we
looked out upon 4 coast indented with
sand hills and thronged with many ships
Soon Damielta, which is at the eastern
mouth Of the Nile, appeard in view. The
coast Is low and sandy. the mouth Of the
river Unseen, but the crowd Of shipping
indicating q great seaport. We are
creeping from that port towards Jaffa,
having probably taken leave Of Africa
forever. The English and French have
contested for supremacy often 4on its
coasts, as Greeks and Persians, Romans
and Carthagenians did ! am sure
! that Africa viii never fall under; or per-
init European sway. Neither its sandy
i coast, nor its peculiar, half savage peo-
pie, will ever admit Of European habita-
ions under the sway Of Europeans.
1888 sH} 10 - EEia ieHsts ~gf-se&s&
Il ON BoARD THE Nah BRooKA,l
/. pi5E@5i g.tit 4al6al Sunday; 10Th. 4
g Light breezes, but fair all night; stars
multiplied, large and more brilliant than
/ ever saw. The milky way" al ire.
gular white fleece stretching quite across
the heavens, The habitual temper OF
the east is patience, and indifference to
natural developments. This is the third
day Of our voyage. the beginning Of the
fourth. "Joppa to.morrows" inquired ],
Of the Captain, an Arabic Christian
IN sha Allah" he said, '1f God pleas.
ga. We see no land. These primitive
sailors carry no compass, take no obser.
Walton, keep no reckoning, but steer BY
landmarks when the coast Invisible, and
6y sun, moon and stars when ont at sea-
~ we have seen no land since we passed
Damietta, but we know by the rate al
which we have sailed that we are still of
the African coast. II we are fortunate
! me first land that we, shall look upor
Il, Mll be in Syria, Palestine. the high Hill
mat overlook GAIA, and stretch behinc
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