54 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



executing a plan which I thought moll neceffary for my 

 undertaking, 



During my flay at Algiers, the Rev. Mr Tonyn, the king's 

 chaplain to that factory, was abfent upon leave. The bigot- 

 ted catholic priefts there neither marry, baptize, nor bury 

 the dead of thofe that are Proteftants. 



There was a Greek priefl, * Father Chriftopher, who con- 

 ftantly had offered gratuitouily to perform thefe functions. 

 The civility, humanity, and good character of the man, led 

 me to take him to refide at my country houfe, where I lived 

 the greateft part of the year ; befides that he was of a chear- 

 ful difpofition, I had practifed much with him both in 

 fpeaking and reading Greek with the accent, not in ufe in . 

 our fchools, but without which that language, in the mouth i 

 of a ftranger, is perfectly unintelligible all over the Archi-.- 

 pelago. 



Upon my leaving Algiers to go on my voyage to BaT~ 

 bary, being tired of the place, he embarked on board a vef- 

 fel, and landed at Alexandria, from which foon after he was 

 called to Cairo by the Greek patriarch Mark, and made 

 Archimandrites, which is the fecond dignity in the Greek 

 church under the patriarch. He too was well acquainted 

 in the houfe of Ali Bey, where all were Georgian and Greek 

 flaves; and it was at his folicitation that Rifk had 'defired 

 the patriarch to furnilh me with an apartment in the Con- 

 vent of St George, 



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* Vid, Introdu&ioiu 



