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for six months, and not being able to get upon it. I think I never 

 felt so happy in my life ; I almost forgot Zuthea, and every thing else 

 except that I was free. ' Come, Murray/ said Yarnio, ' you must 

 work now, for we've only got lour hands besides ourselves/ 'Ay, ay/ 

 said I, ' what shall I do?' e Why, as you can't speak Greek, you had 

 better take the helm ; I suppose you can steer pretty well ?' ' I 

 hope so/ said I ; so I seized hold of the helm. Directly we were out 

 of the harbour, the wind was fair ; so we gave way, and were soon 

 round the point; up with our sails inagiffy, we were latine-rigged, 

 and then away we went with a spanking breeze right a-beam. Well, 

 lads, I shan't stop to tell you about the beautiful land to leeward of 

 us. Yarnio said to me, ' I wish you would go as far as Sfakia 

 with us, for if it comes on to blow, we shall want all our hands to 

 take these sails in, and more too if we had them ; and I assure you 

 that my cousin will not attempt to detain you, but will immediately 

 put more hands into the boat, and we will then, after we have safely 

 landed Zuthea, go and search for a man-of-war, or English merchant- 

 man ; and if we meet the latter, we will let her go free for your sake 

 what do you say?' said he, 'have you any objection?' < Not a 

 bit/ said I ; ' you assisted me, and I should be a d d villain if I he- 

 sitated to do the same to you/ Well, lads, we were only a day and a 

 night running to Sfakia, and just as we were rounding the point to 

 run into the little harbour, we saw a large boat quite full of men 

 getting under weigh. ' Hurrah !' said Yarnio, ' we are all safe, 

 that's one of my cousin's boats/ We immediately hauled down our 

 sails, out oars, and pulled alongside. His cousin was in the boat, and 

 immediately recognized him. After Yarnio had explained in Greek 

 the reason for coming, he told him in the same language who I was, 

 and the promises he had made me. Agimicali that -was his cousin's 

 name waved his hand to me, and said something in Greek, which 

 Yarnio told rne was an assurance that he would give me every assist- 

 ance that had been promised ; Agimicali was then going after an 

 English brig that he had heard from his agent was to pass near 

 Sfakia in a few days. ' Until he returns/ said Yarnio, ' which will 

 be in two or three days, I wish you would remain with me and my 

 sister, and help us to wile away the time ; and I promise you, you 

 shall be better treated here as my friend, than you were as my sister's 

 slave/ I agreed to remain with them till Agimicali returned, for I 

 could not bear to part with Zuthea, perhaps for ever ; and I hoped by 

 remaining a little longer with them, to induce Yarnio to return with 

 me to England and see Lord Vaudeville ; but though I mentioned 

 the subject several times, and said every thing I could to persuade, I 

 could never make him alter his determination to live and die in 

 Greece. I found a very great, and for me a very pleasant, change in 

 my treatment here ; I lived with Yarnio and Zuthea, and found my- 

 self so comfortable, that I could have easily contented myself by re- 

 maining longer but Agimicali at last returned. He was a tall, 

 handsome-looking man, about two or three-and-thirty ; he brought 

 with him a large quantity of silks, and about a thousand dollars, the 

 cargo of a merchant brig that he had boarded; but I had the satisfac- 

 tion of knowing it was French. Yarnio immediately spoke to him 



