. Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. . h. < *l <.*% Jttm RETURN OF LIEUTENANT LYNClls TARTY. 205 since a letter received at this period from Colonel chap. XI Campbell, the British Agent and Consul-General in •—<-—- . .,7 „ Political Egypt, assigned the hostility of the Porte to the Expe- as the cause for Mehemet Alis opposition. Nodoubt the real explanation of all the hostility evinced,and impediments thrown in our way, would be foundin the opposition of Eussia to the establis
. Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. . h. < *l <.*% Jttm RETURN OF LIEUTENANT LYNClls TARTY. 205 since a letter received at this period from Colonel chap. XI Campbell, the British Agent and Consul-General in •—<-—- . .,7 „ Political Egypt, assigned the hostility of the Porte to the Expe- as the cause for Mehemet Alis opposition. Nodoubt the real explanation of all the hostility evinced,and impediments thrown in our way, would be foundin the opposition of Eussia to the establishment of aline to India by way of the Euphrates. Be this as it may, we were still apprehensive of thissystem being continued, and our anxiety was increasedby a report that Lieutenant Lynch and his party hadbeen attacked and destroyed by the Arabs. We had afew days of most anxious suspense, which were endedby the happy intelligence of the safe return of the Lieut,party to Aleppo, only one of their attendants having safe disabled by a serious wound. The belief hadsomehow prevailed among the Arabs that. Lieut
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