text:  Passing over therefore the details given of these well-known objects we find the party after a rapid passage along the Mahmoodiyeh canal in an iron track-boat drawn by four horses and a vexatious delay of two days at the junction of the canal and the river (during which the want of musquitto-curtains gave them an ample foretaste of the quantity and quality of the insect plagues of Egypt ) fairly embarked on the broad stream of the Nile