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BAVARIANS.

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state that it was impossible even to guess at their desti-
nation.

We had scarcely been six hours on the soil of Greece
before we were overwhelmed with accounts of the un-
popularity of the Bavarians. At Athens these reports
were fully confirmed. To-day we heard of two officers of
engineers having been cruelly murdered on the opposite
side of the gulf a few days before—the one at Missolonghi,
the other in the mountains near Lepanto by the Klephts;
the latter had been sent to mark out the plan for a new
village, and no sooner were the inhabitants aware that he
was a Bavarian, than he was attacked and cut to pieces in
a most barbarous manner. Becriminations and complaints
were loud on all sides and against every one; the people
were accused of republicanism and discontent, and the go-
vernment of taxation, oppression, and partiality.