Table of Contents

Preface; 1. The author embarks at Toulon; 2. Arrival of the fleet at Malta - attack on the town and capitulation; 3. Storming of Alexandria; 4. March from Alexandria to the interior of the country; 5. The British fleet descried, and naval battle of Aboukir; 6. Anniversary feast on the birth of Mahomet; 7. The author enters the Delta; 8. Voyage from Rosetta up the Nile to Cairo; 9. Mummies of the ibis in the vaults of Saccara, and conjectures concerning that bird; 10. Desaix returns to Cairo for reinforcements.

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A lively, illustrated three-volume account, published in translation in 1803, of experiences in Egypt, by a savant travelling with Napoleon's army.