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deavoured to keep in a good humour, hoping for 

 fairer weather the following day. 



The Bay of Pagagna is nearly land-locked, 

 and the yacht in which we were, besides another 

 smaller one, in which two of us used to sleep, 

 and the Greek paranza, which served as a dog 

 boat, were all anchored in a sheltered position 

 nearer to the outer extremity of the peninsula 

 which forms one side, than to any other part of 

 the land. When the vessels swung round, head 

 to wind, their sterns were not more than fifty 

 yards from the peninsula, whilst our distance 

 from the main on the opposite side might per- 

 haps have been two hundred yards. The wind 

 was very strong from the southward, and coming 

 down the gullies in the limestone hills, of which 

 the peninsula is composed, in very strong puffs, 

 caused us to swing about in different directions ; 

 but, for the most part, we were in the position 

 close to the peninsula which I have described. 



On a sudden, towards the middle of the day, 

 we were surprised by the sound of voices calling 

 out loudly from the shore, and in an instant a 

 reply in Albanian from our servant Giovanni; 

 presently the voices became louder and more 



