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same to whomsoever they might be addressed*." Two
excellent men, the chiefs of the Police (Cavasses), were
appointed to accompany us, perhaps in the double ca-
pacity of a guard of honour, and to see justice done be-
tween all parties; they were to protect us from impo-
sition, and to report any oppression of the peasantry
by us.
We sailed from Rhodes, but forty-five miles from our
destination, on the 21st of December, and did not arrive
until the 26th: our voyages were most tedious.
The Captain could not find a secure berth for the ship
in Kalamaky Bay: he therefore landed some stores and
the men for the expedition, and sailed for the Bay of Ma-
cry, about fifty miles to the northward, where also lay
the Isabella with Mr. Hoskyn. My surprise was great
on hearing from the Captain, a few hours before we were
put on shore, that neither he nor any of his surveying
officers were to be of the expedition, and that the whole
was to be left to his first Lieutenant, who was a stranger
to the country and had recently joined the ship. I urged
the necessity for all the engineering skill the Captain
could spare, to which he replied, that they could not leave
the charts, but perhaps he might come down to see us.
I was landed with the first party in order to seek the
* After we had been some weeks at work in the ruins, our acts were
confirmed by a message from the Pasha of Adalia, saying, that " the
Queen of England was good, the Sultan was good, and that we were
all brothers, and that we might take what we liked."
same to whomsoever they might be addressed*." Two
excellent men, the chiefs of the Police (Cavasses), were
appointed to accompany us, perhaps in the double ca-
pacity of a guard of honour, and to see justice done be-
tween all parties; they were to protect us from impo-
sition, and to report any oppression of the peasantry
by us.
We sailed from Rhodes, but forty-five miles from our
destination, on the 21st of December, and did not arrive
until the 26th: our voyages were most tedious.
The Captain could not find a secure berth for the ship
in Kalamaky Bay: he therefore landed some stores and
the men for the expedition, and sailed for the Bay of Ma-
cry, about fifty miles to the northward, where also lay
the Isabella with Mr. Hoskyn. My surprise was great
on hearing from the Captain, a few hours before we were
put on shore, that neither he nor any of his surveying
officers were to be of the expedition, and that the whole
was to be left to his first Lieutenant, who was a stranger
to the country and had recently joined the ship. I urged
the necessity for all the engineering skill the Captain
could spare, to which he replied, that they could not leave
the charts, but perhaps he might come down to see us.
I was landed with the first party in order to seek the
* After we had been some weeks at work in the ruins, our acts were
confirmed by a message from the Pasha of Adalia, saying, that " the
Queen of England was good, the Sultan was good, and that we were
all brothers, and that we might take what we liked."