separate cells, a point on which my companion seemed to lay
considerable stress.

On the following day, at about noon, we entered Jaffa, and put up at
an inn there which is kept by a Pole. The boat from Beyrout, which
touches at Jaffa on its way to Alexandria, was not yet in, nor even
sighted; we were therefore amply in time. "Shall we sail to-night?"
I asked of the agent. "Yes, in all probability," he replied. "If
the signal be seen before three we shall do so. If not, then not;"
and so I returned to the hotel.

Smith had involuntarily shown signs of fatigue during the journey,
but yet he had borne up well against it. I had never felt called on
to grant any extra indulgence as to time because the work was too
much for him. But now he was a good deal knocked up, and I was a
little frightened fearing that I had over-driven him under the heat
of the sun. I was alarmed lest he should have fever, and proposed
to send for the Jaffa doctor. But this he utterly refused. He
would shut himself for an hour or two in his room, he said, and by
that time he trusted the boat would be in sight. It was clear to me
that he was very anxious on the subject, fearing that his uncle
would be back upon his heels before he had started.

I ordered a serious breakfast for myself, for with me, on such
occasions, my appetite demands more immediate attention than my
limbs. I also acknowledge that I become fatigued, and can lay
myself at length during such idle days and sleep from hour to hour;
but the desire to do so never comes till I have well eaten and
drunken. A bottle of French wine, three or four cutlets of goats'
flesh, an omelet made out of the freshest eggs, and an enormous dish