1 that there remained onl' a quantity of burduHes (ox hides,:
2 containing tallow) which could not be removed in cons qiience
3 of their great weight. They were, therefore, obliged to.cut the
4 tallow with axes and large knives, and throw' it piecemeal into
5 the sea. This required hard labour, as the tallow was frozen.
6 In this, operation,-our Greek captain (we bad also a 'Turkish
7 one) broke his yatagan (a large Turkish knife); and upon seeing
8 that the water in the hold continued to increase, lie gave up all
9 hope, and retired to his little cabin in despair. There be fell on
10 the knees before the image of bis Huvayhi (the \ irgin), and left
11 the vessel to the care of heaven and the '.Turkish captain.
12 Happily the teiUpest did not last long; the storm, which bad
13 come on so suddenly, left us with the same rapidity. Tilled with
14 hope, the day dawned upon us, when we descried the high moun¬
15 tains of Greece ill the distance. The first rays of the son, whose
16 appearance infused new life and fresh courage into our breasts,
17 arose majestically from the horizon, and beaming brightly* dif¬
18 fused warmth through our limbs, previously benumbed with
19 cold. With the aid of the mizcn-mast, and favoured by a gent le
20 breeze, towards the evening of the same day we approached the
21 shore, where we cast anchor. At. the break of day on the follow¬
22 ing morning we disembarked, and thanked heaven for our de¬
23 liverance. from thence we walked up niout ten miles, arid
24 arrived at Apollonia, a city once celebrated among the Greeks,
25 but now of little importance, ami bearing tin name of Sissopnli,
26 to which place the vessel was brought to bo refitted. I here
27 found my companions, the Arnnuts, who had taken up their
28 quarters in a large coffee-house, where they literally roasted their
29 frozen feet at a coal (ire. Although they discontinued this in
30 consequence- of my earnings, it was too late; anti I afterwards
31 learned that, several of them died in Constantinople of mol lifica¬
32 tion. It «»« so hot in th.. coffee-house that I could not stay
33 there long, and although 1 kept aloof from the stove, which w«s
34 heated to redness, in order to avoid the sudden transition mom
35 eold to heat. I nevertheless canglu a severe rheumatism in mv
36 feet, which tormented me for four months during the winter f
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