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its utter inability to put a stop to, or even check, 

 these proceedings, that, by an understanding with 

 the Ottoman Porte, the British Government is 

 permitted to take any precautions or to adopt 

 any measures which it may think fit towards the 

 inhabitants of the coast of Albania, to prevent 

 those constantly returning acts of piracy, and for 

 the general protection of the Ionian Islands, in 

 the same manner as if they were British, and 

 not Turkish subjects. 



To return to our proceedings in the bay of Pa- 

 gagna. On the morning of the eighth day, after 

 undergoing the usual ceremony of standing before 

 the doctor, who was to judge, from our appear- 

 ance, whether we were in sufficiently good health 

 to be allowed to mix with the worthy inhabitants 

 of the Ionian Islands, and having, agreeably to 



result of a preconcerted attack by her boat on the peaceful Italians, 

 thus crueUy sent prematurely to render their long account. 



The unfortunate men who were killed had evidently received in 

 their bodies nearly every bullet that had been fired. Their deaths 

 must have been instantaneous, as, besides bodily wounds, they were 

 shot through their heads, — one, as nearly as I remember, in two 

 places. The wounded man suffered more from fright than from 

 the pain or effects of his wound, which, although in the body, was 

 found on examination to be no more than a flesh wound, as the 

 yataghan had slanted in such a way, that it was in nowise danger- 

 ous, and he soon recovered from its effects. 



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