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health must be far more secure when on service than 

 when in their own homes. 



Our inspection had occupied some time, and brought 

 the day well on to the hour of dinner. The hospit- 

 able colonel having right courteously satisfied all our 

 inquiries, led the way to his domicile. Among the 

 notable experiences of this day, it was not the least 

 that he himself by his presence afforded us, enabling 

 us to mark the tone of feeling subsisting between 

 himself and his men. I will defy any harsh task- 

 master to take me among his men and prevent my 

 reading in their demeanour the fact of his ungentle- 

 ness. Aversion and constrained fear are motives too 

 powerful for the possibility of suppression in the 

 presence of their object. The eye is too faithful an 

 index of the soul to give no spark when the fire of 

 hatred rages within. But as we passed through the 

 different buildings, every eye expressed cheerfulness 

 and satisfaction. They seemed pleased at our curi- 

 osity, and gratified with his visit. He himself seemed 

 delighted to play the part of exhibitor. He walked 

 through the different compartments, not exactly with 

 the air of an English dragoon, but still with a good 

 deal of the soldier about him. Take him all in all, 

 he was one of the two best specimens of Turkish great 

 men that I have seen. The first place' I reserve for 

 my excellent friend the Pasha of Rhodes. "With all 

 his slouching, happy-go-lucky air, it was astonishing 

 to see how much grace he managed to preserve, and 



