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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ready coasted part of Lycia. Those who
have experienced the filth and other mi-*
series of such a mode of conveyance,
and who know the dangers that await
an unprotected European among these
tribes of uncivilized Mohammedans, can
alone appreciate the ardour which could
lead to such an enterprise. I succeeded
in persuading him to remove to His Ma-
jesty's ship, in which he might pursue his
researches with less hazard, and with
some degree of comfort.

The alarm felt by the crew of his boat,
on seeing the frigate, had been excessive.
Had she been a Turkish man of war,
they were sure of being pillaged, under
the pretext of exacting a present; if a
Barbary cruiser, they knew that the
young men would have been forcibly
seized for recruits, and the rest plunder-
ed : and even if she had been a Greek
merchant ship, their security would have
been still precarious; for when one of
these large Greek polacras meets even