Excerpt from Three Weeks in Palestine and Lebanon
A visit to Jerusalem being determined on, the route from Cairo across the Desert, which I should have much preferred, was voted by the majority of the party to be too fatiguing an enterprise. We therefore descended the Nile in a kangia to Damietta, purposing to proceed from thence by sea to Jaffa, or some other port on the coast of Palestine.
Damietta, where we were detained for several days before we could accomplish our object, is chiefly impressed upon our memories by incessant suffering from what still continues to be one of the plagues of Egypt - horresco referens. One would fancy that it must be the head-quarters of the legions of Beelzebub, the Insect-god.
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