RETURN OF MR. DANIELL TO LYCIA. 9 



At Rhodes we met with Mr. Purdie, who 

 had just been appointed British consul at 

 Adalia, and was proceeding to his consulship. 

 He proposed to go by a caique to Leveesy and 

 travel overland to Adalia, visiting the ruins of 

 Xanthus on the way; and expected to arrive 

 there before the officers of the Monarch and 

 Medea, and the parties under their charge, had 

 embarked. As Mr. Daniell intended to avail 

 himself of a kind invitation from the officers 

 of the Monarch to take a passage in their 

 ship to Athens, on which account he had left 

 his portmanteau and other heavy baggage at 

 Leveesy, he accompanied Mr. Purdie. When 

 they arrived at Xanthus, the ruins were deserted. 

 The English ships had sailed only the previous 

 day. Our friend, instead of rejoining us, and 

 returning to Rhodes by caique, unfortunately 

 resolved to proceed to Adalia with the consul, 

 and on the way was seized with fever; from 

 which, however, he recovered at Adalia, under 

 Mr. Purdie's care. Trusting too much in the 

 strength of his constitution, and anxious to 

 satisfy himself on certain points in the ancient 

 geography of the country which still remained 

 unsettled, he had hardly regained his strength 



