Excerpt from 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 1777 in Letters to a Lady T here was nothing remarkable in our paffage to Mama, but the were above eight weeks in efl'eefing a paflage, which frequently requires but three. The latenefs of the feafon made us apprehenfive'of delays, but -not the continual ones we met with. At feveral periods we thought of nothing lefs than of getting to Suez by water. 'my fellow-travellers and myfelf were, 'however, refolved 'to -profecute our journey by land, {hould the (now Adventure reach any port in thenred Sea. But the fight of land prefented us with better pro fpeets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.