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PREFACE.
I was accompanied by Signor Antonio Schranz,
a native of Spain, who has been long domiciliated
with his family at Malta, and to whose pencil the
reader of these volumes is indebted for nearlv all the
engravings which they contain1.
Early in the following September I hired a Greek
schooner of Hydhra, at Khania, for my voyage to
Italy. After a very bad passage, of nearly thirty
days, I landed at the lazaretto of Ancona, in the be-
ginning of October. I spent part of December at
Venice, and the reader will find sufficient evidence pf
my employment there, in the extracts from unpublished
manuscripts, which are occasionally given in the notes
to these volumes, and more especially in the Appendix.
I arrived in London on the 1st of February 1835,
and in the course of that year had almost prepared my
Travels in Crete for the press,- when events occurred
in consequence of which I spent a considerable part
of the ensuing winter in Germany. Thus I could
not go to press till the last summer: and, even since
I began to print, I have experienced some interrup-
tions, which have compelled me, however reluctantly,
greatly to curtail my work.
1 Mr Glasscott, R.N. also went with me to Khania from Malta, but was
unable, from indisposition, to travel in the island, and, after staying at
Khania for about two months, rejoined his ship the Beacon on the coast of
Asia Minor.
PREFACE.
I was accompanied by Signor Antonio Schranz,
a native of Spain, who has been long domiciliated
with his family at Malta, and to whose pencil the
reader of these volumes is indebted for nearlv all the
engravings which they contain1.
Early in the following September I hired a Greek
schooner of Hydhra, at Khania, for my voyage to
Italy. After a very bad passage, of nearly thirty
days, I landed at the lazaretto of Ancona, in the be-
ginning of October. I spent part of December at
Venice, and the reader will find sufficient evidence pf
my employment there, in the extracts from unpublished
manuscripts, which are occasionally given in the notes
to these volumes, and more especially in the Appendix.
I arrived in London on the 1st of February 1835,
and in the course of that year had almost prepared my
Travels in Crete for the press,- when events occurred
in consequence of which I spent a considerable part
of the ensuing winter in Germany. Thus I could
not go to press till the last summer: and, even since
I began to print, I have experienced some interrup-
tions, which have compelled me, however reluctantly,
greatly to curtail my work.
1 Mr Glasscott, R.N. also went with me to Khania from Malta, but was
unable, from indisposition, to travel in the island, and, after staying at
Khania for about two months, rejoined his ship the Beacon on the coast of
Asia Minor.