They brought the agricultural productions of their own countries, as well as articles of manufacture of various kinds; these they sold to the merchants of Alexandria, and purchased the productions of Egypt in return.
The port of Alexandria presented thus a constant picture of life and animation.

Merchant ships were continually coming and going, or lying at anchor in the roadstead.

Seamen were hoisting sails, or raising anchors, or rowing their capacious galleys through the water, singing, as they pulled, to the motion of the oars.

Within the city there was the same ceaseless activity.

Here groups of men were unloading the canal boats which had arrived from the river.