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SICILY AND MALTA. 35
should run a great rilk of being attacked
by the natives, who are little better than
savages, and always on the alarm against
the Turks.—On weighing these reasons,
and putting the question, it was carried,
To proceed on our voyage.
I own it is with much regret that I
leave this curious issand, without being
better acquainted with it. I have been
looking with a good glass all round, but
can see no marks of the eruption we heard
so much of at Naples; indeed, the south-
west part, where we saw the appearance of
fire, is still hid from us by the interposi-
tion of the issand; and if there has been
an eruption, it was certainly on that side:
It is probable we shall never be able to
learn whether there has been one or not;
or, at least, to make ourselves matters of
any of the particulars relating to it; for
events of that kind do not make such a
D 2 noise
should run a great rilk of being attacked
by the natives, who are little better than
savages, and always on the alarm against
the Turks.—On weighing these reasons,
and putting the question, it was carried,
To proceed on our voyage.
I own it is with much regret that I
leave this curious issand, without being
better acquainted with it. I have been
looking with a good glass all round, but
can see no marks of the eruption we heard
so much of at Naples; indeed, the south-
west part, where we saw the appearance of
fire, is still hid from us by the interposi-
tion of the issand; and if there has been
an eruption, it was certainly on that side:
It is probable we shall never be able to
learn whether there has been one or not;
or, at least, to make ourselves matters of
any of the particulars relating to it; for
events of that kind do not make such a
D 2 noise