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;8 THE ISLES AND SHRINES OF GREECE
More immediately urgent than money gifts was the
need of tents and supplies for the homeless and
hungry. In the race to furnish relief England
came in ahead. News of the disaster had been tele-
graphed to London, and thence to Admiral Tryon of
the Mediterranean fleet. It took only a single elec-
tric spark to kindle the humane energy of our Eng-
lish cousins. The English ironclad " Camperdown "
was just going into Malta. Within three hours after
she arrived she was loaded with five hundred large
and one thousand small tents, two marquees, seventy
tons of boards, a large quantity of biscuit, rice, flour,
cocoa, and two thousand blankets. She sailed imme-
diately, under the command of Captain Johnstone,
and arrived at Zante on the third of February. The
same energy displayed in getting the supplies was
shown in distributing them for the relief of the suf-
ferers. The English Jack-tars worked with a hearty
good will in putting up tents. Captain Johnstone
was ubiquitous on horseback, bringing cool judg-
ment as well as warm sympathy to the aid of the
panic-stricken people.
A committee of relief was at once formed for the
proper distribution of tents and food. It consisted
of the English residents and members of both of the
prominent Greek political parties, with sub-commit-
tees in the villages. Later three Greek men-of-war
arrived with further supplies, and an Italian man-of-
war came on a similar errand of mercy. King George
of Greece and Queen Olga, with the Crown Prince
and Prince Nicolas, arrived in the royal yacht, ac-
companied by the Minister of the Interior.
I joined the king and queen and the rest of the
More immediately urgent than money gifts was the
need of tents and supplies for the homeless and
hungry. In the race to furnish relief England
came in ahead. News of the disaster had been tele-
graphed to London, and thence to Admiral Tryon of
the Mediterranean fleet. It took only a single elec-
tric spark to kindle the humane energy of our Eng-
lish cousins. The English ironclad " Camperdown "
was just going into Malta. Within three hours after
she arrived she was loaded with five hundred large
and one thousand small tents, two marquees, seventy
tons of boards, a large quantity of biscuit, rice, flour,
cocoa, and two thousand blankets. She sailed imme-
diately, under the command of Captain Johnstone,
and arrived at Zante on the third of February. The
same energy displayed in getting the supplies was
shown in distributing them for the relief of the suf-
ferers. The English Jack-tars worked with a hearty
good will in putting up tents. Captain Johnstone
was ubiquitous on horseback, bringing cool judg-
ment as well as warm sympathy to the aid of the
panic-stricken people.
A committee of relief was at once formed for the
proper distribution of tents and food. It consisted
of the English residents and members of both of the
prominent Greek political parties, with sub-commit-
tees in the villages. Later three Greek men-of-war
arrived with further supplies, and an Italian man-of-
war came on a similar errand of mercy. King George
of Greece and Queen Olga, with the Crown Prince
and Prince Nicolas, arrived in the royal yacht, ac-
companied by the Minister of the Interior.
I joined the king and queen and the rest of the