Note 8 — CHAP IV.
Reading edition
It is a curious fact, that at Coomassie, the capital of Ashantee, Bowditch met with a very intelligent Arab, who had witnessed the battle of Aboukir. He particularly mentioned the blowing up of the L’Orient, and at the very hour (10 P.M.) that it took place. He was at Cairo at that time when the French army, he says, came, ill-treated every one, “took all, and paid for nothing;” and he was there when the British army, with the Turkish force, drove them away. The British treated every person well, and paid for every thing. Such were his accounts, which, as we know well, are perfectly accurate.