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by the Turks, though he was a Greek saint. The 

 consul's dragoman, who was with us, appeared 

 to give impUcit credence to all the wonderful 

 stories the hadji related concerning the saint's 

 tomb, which many persons even now visit. This 

 hadji assured us most positively, that the lamp 

 is never allowed to go out, because when the 

 Turks first converted the church into a mosque, 

 the man in charge of it could not sleep from the 

 noises and groans that issued from the tomb ; but 

 on putting a light all became quiet immediately. 

 He shuddered with horror when we asked him if 

 he ever let the light go out. " Groans," he said, 

 " would arise from the tomb, enough to cause the 

 stoutest heart to tremble." I observed that the 

 mosque smelt most abominably of mice. Probably 

 they might have had some hand in disturbing the 

 slumbers of the worthy hadji. 



The barracks at Salonica, which have been 

 lately constructed, are very large and commo- 

 dious, but not too well situated. The officer ac- 

 tually in command was Alii Bey (son of Ibrahim 

 Pasha), colonel of volunteers, a young man, about 

 six-and-twenty, of very debauched appearance, 

 who received us whilst he was demolishing, some- 



