MOUSTAFA. 



5 



fine, with a favourable steady breeze from the 

 N.E. 



Yesterday, being Sunday, we all dined with 

 the gun-room officers. The lieutenants always 

 invite their captain on a Sunday. I was never 

 in the society of naval officers without finding 

 them well-informed and agreeable. I love 

 their frank and generous hearts of British oak, 

 and as for Jack, who can see him without 

 admiration, especially when he dances a reel on 

 the forecastle ? 



To-day, for the first time since I left the 

 shore, my head has suffered me to read. I have 

 begun Morier's novel, Ayesha. Old Moustafa, 

 the renegade German, was a janissary of the 

 palace at Pera. His character for goodnature, 

 oddity, and cowardice, is faithfully represented. 

 When Sir Stratford Canning left Constanti- 

 nople, Moustafa^s fears of being murdered, if 



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