text:  But with the usual good-luck of people who bear disappointments well all turned out for the best as will be seen by the following extract: "I had on board the Powerful a few days before formed the acquaintance of a young Syrian of the name of Assaade el Khyat who brought up at one of our universities was at heart a true Englishman spoke fluently our own and several other European and Eastern languages and whom I found on the whole a sensible well-informed young man and a most agreeable companion