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of barley cakes, smoking hot, for our supper. 

 Two or three piastres, given to her ragged little 

 urchins, made us all good friends, and a night 

 which began so disagreeably, ended very plea- 

 santly. 



With the daylight we became acquainted with 

 our position, which we found to be about a 

 thousand feet above the sea-coast and imme- 

 diately opposite to Castelorizo. The small 

 patch of ground cultivated by the solitary Urook 

 family amounted to about two acres, on which we 

 observed the foundations of a small ancient 

 building, and a broken sarcophagus. As we 

 could hear of no other ruins along the coast 

 before Antiphellus, we early commenced a se- 

 cond attempt to ascend to Isna. The old Urook 

 this time becoming our guide, in three quarters 

 of an hour, we reached a small shelf or ledge 

 a mile in length on the mountain side, on which 

 were scattered about fifteen houses, forming the 

 village we were in search of. It was our in- 

 tention to have gone on to Saaret with the 

 baggage, but we were dissuaded from doing so 

 by the inhabitants, who informed us that we 

 could procure nothing there, the people not 

 having yet returned from their winter habitations 



