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fumigation or suffocation being over, we walked 

 into the house of the aga or governor, to pay our 

 respects to him. 



He was very civil to us, and particularly noticed 

 those who were pointed out to him as English 

 officers. We did not remain long, because the 

 Bavarian doctor was to ride about with him to 

 visit the quarantine establishment during the time 

 the vessel remained at Varna. This unfortunate 

 doctor was in a very awkward predicament. The 

 horse they had brought for him to ride appeared 

 to have made a resolution that no son of Escula- 

 pius should ever cross him. He danced and 

 capered in every direction ; the doctor, frightened 

 out of his wits, vowed he would not mount for all 

 the world, so that the aga, a steady old Turk, was 

 obliged to resign his own steed to the doctor, and 

 having mounted the apparently refractory animal, 

 managed him with the greatest ease. 



I took the opportunity of examining, as well as 

 the shortness of the time permitted, the fortifica- 

 tions of Varna. The remains of the old works, 

 which were destroyed some years ago, are still 

 visible, but are, of course, utterly useless. Since 

 that time an entirely new line of works a few 



