TRAVELS IN UPPEB 



similar to that of an egg ; the two Couffes, which 

 are a tolerable representation of the species of 

 panniers that go by that name in the commerce of 

 the Levant ; finally the Cerigotle, or little Cerigo. 

 On the 13th we dropped anchor in the deep bay 

 of Suda, in the isle of Candia. 



The day after our departure from Malta, the 

 very day that a hawk perched on the frigate's sail- 

 yards, two other birds, a little gray sparrow *, and 

 a yellow wagtail \, likewise alighted on the rig- 

 ging. But less in a condition to support the fa- 

 tigue of a long flight, they suffered themselves to 

 be caught. As their size did not promise a great 

 repast to the appetite of the glutton, 1 prevailed so 

 far as to have them committed to my care. I car- 

 ried them into the great cabin, and there, after 

 having lavished caresses on them, which their state 

 of disquiet permitted them not to feel, I set them, 

 at liberty. Whether they had a presentiment of 

 the tempest which attacked us the day after, whe- 

 ther that, discovering no land, they were afraid to 

 venture themselves on a boundless sea, after a few 

 moments of uncertain flight, they re-entered by 

 the same window from which I had let them go. 

 From that moment they quitted not the great 



* Passerinette, or little sparrow. B u Ton, Hist. Nat. des Ois, 

 & pi. enlum. No. 579, fig. 2. Motacilla passerina. Lin. 

 f Motacilla baarula. Lin. 



cabin ; 



