CONTENTS
CHAP. Page
I. MAKING A FRIEND 11
II. A BEDOUIN TRIBE 31
III. LEFT BEHIND 49
IV. THE BATTLE OF THE PYRAMIDS 66
V. A STREET ATTACK 86
VI. THE RISING IN CAIRO 105
VII. SAVED 122
VIII. AN EGYPTIAN TOMB 142
IX. SIR SIDNEY SMITH 162
X. A SEA-FIGHT 182
XI. ACRE 199
XII. A DESPERATE SIEGE 217
XIII. AN INDEPENDENT COMMAND 234
XIV. A PIRATE HOLD 251
XV. CRUISING 270
XVI. A VISIT HOME 287
XVII. ABERCROMBIE'S EXPEDITION 304
XVIII. THE BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIA 322
XIX. QUIET AND REST 340
CHAPTER I.
MAKING A FRIEND.
Two lads were standing in one of the bastions of a fort looking over the
sea. There were neither guards nor sentinels there. The guns stood on
their carriages, looking clean and ready for action, but this was not
the result of care and attention, but simply because in so dry a climate
iron rusts but little. A close examination would have shown that the
wooden carriages on which they stood were so cracked and warped by heat
that they would have fallen to pieces at the first discharge of the guns
they upheld. Piles of cannon-balls stood between the guns, half-covered
with the drifting sand, which formed slopes half-way up the walls of the
range of barracks behind, and filled up the rooms on the lower floor.
Behind rose the city of Alexandria, with its minarets and mosques, its
palaces and its low mud-built huts. Seaward lay a fleet of noble ships
with their long lines of port-holes, their lofty masts, and network of
rigging.
"What do you think of it, Sidi?"
"It is wonderful!" his companion replied. "How huge they are, what lines
of cannon, what great masts, as tall and as straight as palm-trees!
Truly you Franks know many things of which we in the desert are
ignorant. Think you that they could batter these forts to pieces?"
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CHAP. Page
I. MAKING A FRIEND 11
II. A BEDOUIN TRIBE 31
III. LEFT BEHIND 49
IV. THE BATTLE OF THE PYRAMIDS 66
V. A STREET ATTACK 86
VI. THE RISING IN CAIRO 105
VII. SAVED 122
VIII. AN EGYPTIAN TOMB 142
IX. SIR SIDNEY SMITH 162
X. A SEA-FIGHT 182
XI. ACRE 199
XII. A DESPERATE SIEGE 217
XIII. AN INDEPENDENT COMMAND 234
XIV. A PIRATE HOLD 251
XV. CRUISING 270
XVI. A VISIT HOME 287
XVII. ABERCROMBIE'S EXPEDITION 304
XVIII. THE BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIA 322
XIX. QUIET AND REST 340
CHAPTER I.
MAKING A FRIEND.
Two lads were standing in one of the bastions of a fort looking over the
sea. There were neither guards nor sentinels there. The guns stood on
their carriages, looking clean and ready for action, but this was not
the result of care and attention, but simply because in so dry a climate
iron rusts but little. A close examination would have shown that the
wooden carriages on which they stood were so cracked and warped by heat
that they would have fallen to pieces at the first discharge of the guns
they upheld. Piles of cannon-balls stood between the guns, half-covered
with the drifting sand, which formed slopes half-way up the walls of the
range of barracks behind, and filled up the rooms on the lower floor.
Behind rose the city of Alexandria, with its minarets and mosques, its
palaces and its low mud-built huts. Seaward lay a fleet of noble ships
with their long lines of port-holes, their lofty masts, and network of
rigging.
"What do you think of it, Sidi?"
"It is wonderful!" his companion replied. "How huge they are, what lines
of cannon, what great masts, as tall and as straight as palm-trees!
Truly you Franks know many things of which we in the desert are
ignorant. Think you that they could batter these forts to pieces?"
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CONTENTS
CHAP. Page
I. MAKING A FRIEND 11
II. A BEDOUIN TRIBE 31
III. LEFT BEHIND 49
IV. THE BATTLE OF THE PYRAMIDS 66
V. A STREET ATTACK 86
VI. THE RISING IN CAIRO 105
VII. SAVED 122
VIII. AN EGYPTIAN TOMB 142
IX. SIR SIDNEY SMITH 162
X. A SEA-FIGHT 182
XI. ACRE 199
XII. A DESPERATE SIEGE 217
XIII. AN INDEPENDENT COMMAND 234
XIV. A PIRATE HOLD 251
XV. CRUISING 270
XVI. A VISIT HOME 287
XVII. ABERCROMBIE'S EXPEDITION 304
XVIII. THE BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIA 322
XIX. QUIET AND REST 340
CHAPTER I.
MAKING A FRIEND.
Two lads were standing in one of the bastions of a fort looking over the
sea. There were neither guards nor sentinels there. The guns stood on
their carriages, looking clean and ready for action, but this was not
the result of care and attention, but simply because in so dry a climate
iron rusts but little. A close examination would have shown that the
wooden carriages on which they stood were so cracked and warped by heat
that they would have fallen to pieces at the first discharge of the guns
they upheld. Piles of cannon-balls stood between the guns, half-covered
with the drifting sand, which formed slopes half-way up the walls of the
range of barracks behind, and filled up the rooms on the lower floor.
Behind rose the city of Alexandria, with its minarets and mosques, its
palaces and its low mud-built huts. Seaward lay a fleet of noble ships
with their long lines of port-holes, their lofty masts, and network of
rigging.
"What do you think of it, Sidi?"
"It is wonderful!" his companion replied. "How huge they are, what lines
of cannon, what great masts, as tall and as straight as palm-trees!
Truly you Franks know many things of which we in the desert are
ignorant. Think you that they could batter these forts to pieces?"
CHAP. Page
I. MAKING A FRIEND 11
II. A BEDOUIN TRIBE 31
III. LEFT BEHIND 49
IV. THE BATTLE OF THE PYRAMIDS 66
V. A STREET ATTACK 86
VI. THE RISING IN CAIRO 105
VII. SAVED 122
VIII. AN EGYPTIAN TOMB 142
IX. SIR SIDNEY SMITH 162
X. A SEA-FIGHT 182
XI. ACRE 199
XII. A DESPERATE SIEGE 217
XIII. AN INDEPENDENT COMMAND 234
XIV. A PIRATE HOLD 251
XV. CRUISING 270
XVI. A VISIT HOME 287
XVII. ABERCROMBIE'S EXPEDITION 304
XVIII. THE BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIA 322
XIX. QUIET AND REST 340
CHAPTER I.
MAKING A FRIEND.
Two lads were standing in one of the bastions of a fort looking over the
sea. There were neither guards nor sentinels there. The guns stood on
their carriages, looking clean and ready for action, but this was not
the result of care and attention, but simply because in so dry a climate
iron rusts but little. A close examination would have shown that the
wooden carriages on which they stood were so cracked and warped by heat
that they would have fallen to pieces at the first discharge of the guns
they upheld. Piles of cannon-balls stood between the guns, half-covered
with the drifting sand, which formed slopes half-way up the walls of the
range of barracks behind, and filled up the rooms on the lower floor.
Behind rose the city of Alexandria, with its minarets and mosques, its
palaces and its low mud-built huts. Seaward lay a fleet of noble ships
with their long lines of port-holes, their lofty masts, and network of
rigging.
"What do you think of it, Sidi?"
"It is wonderful!" his companion replied. "How huge they are, what lines
of cannon, what great masts, as tall and as straight as palm-trees!
Truly you Franks know many things of which we in the desert are
ignorant. Think you that they could batter these forts to pieces?"
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BN ID: | 2940013288980 |
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Publisher: | SAP |
Publication date: | 10/19/2011 |
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