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afford convenient situations for airing
stores, for unloading prizes or transports,
for stretching rigging, and for the vari-
ous operations of a refit: and both these
ports may be considered the more valu-
able, as from hence to Syria there is
but one land-locked harbour. In com-
mon, however, with Kastelorizo, this
place has the serious defect of wanting
a constant supply of fresh water ; as the
scorching heat of summer dries up all
the rivulets. We found good water in
several of the reservoirs attached to the
ruined houses, but a fleet could not trust
to such precarious means.

Neither are refreshments easily ob-
tained here : we were obliged to send to
Myra to purchase bullocks ; and though
the officer was accompanied by a mes-
senger from the Agha, he found great
difficulty in persuading the inhabitants
to part with even one. Perhaps by send-
ing to the superior Agha, who resides ten