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back to El Maly, and endeavour to hire a boat to take 

 me to my destination. I had very little difficulty in 

 managing this, and soon succeeded in hiring a Greek 

 fishing boat to take me and all my belongings to a 

 place called Atrassan, near the Musa Dagh, wait there 

 whilst I went up to the mountain for a week, and 

 bring me back in time to catch the steamer for 

 Smyrna, which I learned would call at Port Fineka 

 some time during the night of Saturday, September 

 29. For this I agreed to pay $20, which is equal to 

 ^3 6s. &d. in English money. Having made all ar- 

 rangements, I went on board the same evening, and 

 we got under way about midnight. 



When day broke it was almost dead calm, and we 

 were hardly moving, but upon rounding a promontory 

 the breeze freshened, and soon became so strong that 

 the skipper of our little craft was afraid to leave the 

 shelter of the land, and we therefore beat about for 

 some time under the lee of a ridge of rocks. In the 

 afternoon we made another attempt, and, rounding 

 the point, ran out into the open sea beyond, our boat 

 tearing through the water under the influence of the 

 strong breeze, and heeling over in such a way that the 

 degenerate countrymen of Ulysses who manned it 

 (although it appeared to me that we might have made 

 a quick run to Atrassan without any danger in one 

 tack) refused to proceed, and, hauling down the main- 

 sail, put the boat about and ran her back to the 

 shelter of the cove we had left. Here we remained 



