Beaufort, Francis: Karamania, or a brief description of the south coast of Asia-Minor and of the remains of antiquity: with plans, views, &c. ; collected during a survey of that coast, under the orders of the lords commissioners of the admiralty, in the years 1811 & 1812 (London, 1817)

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my absence. The Agha, starting from
his seat, demanded to be put on shore.
He was invited to see the rest of the fri-
gate.—No, he replied, he came to visit
the captain, out of respect to the Eng-
lish nation, many of whom he had known
at Constantinople, and not to see a house
of boards ; and, were he to look at any
thing, it might be suspected that curio-
sity had prompted his visit. A salute,
however, of a few guns on his departure
had partly pacified him ; and my pouch
full of gunpowder completed our recon-
ciliation.