34 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



executing a plan which I thought moll . neceiTary for m^ 

 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 prieft, * Father Chriftopher, who con- 

 ftantly had offered gratuitoufly 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 greateil part of the year ; belides that he was of a chear- 

 ful difpofition, I had pradlifed 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 

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

 pelago. 



Upon my leaving Algiers to go on my voyage, to Bar- 

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

 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 

 ilaves ; and it was at his felicitation that Rifk had defired 

 the patriarch to fiirnifhr-me with an apartment in the, Con- 

 vent of St George, . 



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* Vid Lrrtroduciiqa, . 



