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venting us from infringing quarantine regulations, 

 and, at the same time, ensuring our liberation 

 from our imprisonment on our return to Corfu at 

 the expiration of the seventh day from the time 

 of our leaving Santa Maura ; because, from our 

 being on board a yacht, we were allowed the 

 usual privilege of a man-of-war, our quarantine 

 dating from the period of departure from the in- 

 fected port : and although the best part of the 

 season had not commenced, we contrived to bring 

 home a few birds, and, on the whole, succeeded 

 in passing our time very agreeably. It chanced, 

 however, one day to rain almost incessantly, and 

 in that determined manner which is seen only in 

 southern climates, so much so, that we not only 

 were unable to land, but could not shew ourselves 

 on deck without being well drenched. It is cer- 

 tainly, under any circumstances, far from agree- 

 able to find oneself confined a close prisoner on 

 board a very small cutter, and with hatches 

 fastened down to endeavour to keep the very 

 small cabin from becoming flooded; but bad as 

 it is at anchor, it is infinitely worse to be at sea ; 

 so we consoled ourselves that we might be a 

 great deal worse off than we then were, and en- 



