. Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. . repair the discovery, and no time was lost m making known to owner, to his utter amazement, that we must pur-chase his house. A bargain was struck at once, to thesatisfaction of both parties ; and before the occupantshad time to quit their dwelling, the sailors were atwork stripping the roof and extracting the , within less than an hour of the breakdown, theboiler was supplied with a new guiding-beam, and wasmoving on towards Guzel Burj, where wat
. Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. . repair the discovery, and no time was lost m making known to owner, to his utter amazement, that we must pur-chase his house. A bargain was struck at once, to thesatisfaction of both parties ; and before the occupantshad time to quit their dwelling, the sailors were atwork stripping the roof and extracting the , within less than an hour of the breakdown, theboiler was supplied with a new guiding-beam, and wasmoving on towards Guzel Burj, where water-carriagewas substituted for that by land; and it fell to Mr. Fitz-james to convey the heavy weights across the lake toMurad Pacha, where the task of their conveyance on-ward to Port William devolved upon Captain arrangements, diligently carried out, nearlycleared out our depot at the Orontes in a short time; 198 NARRATIVE OF THE EUPHRATES EXPEDITION. chap. anc[ I then organised a small caravan to convey the—^— guns, small arms, and a large supply of powder for PortWilliamnow thecentre tf. NICHOLl_a. NATIVE BOAT WITH THE BOILER, ON THE BAKE OF ANTIOCH. mining purposes, to our station on the Euphrates, andquitted our camp myself on July 10, and on the18th reached Port William. This place had now, in itsturn, become the centre of our operations, having on oneside the line of transport, and on the other the prepara-tions for the navigation of the river. Unremitting exer-tions had by this time accomplished a good deal of theformer task, and by the middle of August our men andanimals were no longer toiling between Suedia andthe Lake of Antioch, on which our persevering Ad-miral had also all but completed his task. The brunt of the transport labour was now trans-ferred to the line between Guzel Burj and PortWilliam, on which Captain Estcourt and Mr. Eassamwere working assiduously and cheerfully, enjoying tho-roughly the absurd incidents which often
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