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Friday, 25. — Started home. G. D. and I bathed from 

 the steps of the steamer. He was severely stung by 

 a jelly-fish. 



Sat. 26. — Syra. Saw Delos, Milo, and the fine rock 

 of Antimilo. 



Monday, 28. — Woke in sight of Etna. Beautiful 

 sunrise. Stromboli astonished us all. We passed close 

 to it about noon. 



Wed. 30. — Marseilles. 



Would that all his travel notes had been thus 

 full ; but even these omit a point of interest, that 

 at Constantinople he met Nubar Pasha, who in- 

 vited him to Egypt, and with whom he main- 

 tained most friendly relations throughout his life. 

 Soon after his return he attended the meeting of 

 the British Association at Brighton, where he 

 presided over Section D, and took the Chair at 

 the Red Lion dinner, and to this dinner he took 

 with him a guest of a kind that had never 

 hitherto been received in that learned company. 



When in the south of France, in the spring, 

 he had tamed a wasp, which he brought with him 

 to Brighton. It had the honour of a leading 

 article in the Daily Telegraph, and of a caricature 

 in Punch. 



" One," said the Daily Telegraph, " of the 

 most curious attendants this year at the gathering 

 of the British Association in Brighton was a little 

 gentleman in brown overcoat, with black and 

 yellow nether garments, wearing a sharp sword 

 poisoned at the tip. We are inclined to think 

 that, next to Mr. Stanley, this visitor might be 

 called by far the most remarkable and best 

 worth attention among all the assembled 

 notorieties. It was Sir John Lubbock's pet wasp ; 



