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mosquitoes, which, at sunset, rose in myriads out 

 of the adjoining morass. It was impossible to 

 escape these merciless tormentors, and the coun- 

 tenances of many of the party bore witness to 

 their tortures. As yet no symptoms of fever 

 had appeared in the camp ; but many were then 

 unconsciously imbibing the poisonous malaria. 

 Here Mr. Daniell first received the seeds of 

 the disease which eventually destroyed him. 

 After the ships quitted the coast, having ac- 

 complished their mission, a great part of those 

 who had been members of the shore party were 

 disabled by fever; and among its victims were 

 three of the officers, with whom we spent our 

 last evening on the banks of the Xanthus. 



May 25th. — We took leave of our naval 

 friends in order to return by way of Sidyma to 

 Leveesy, where we hoped to procure a boat to 

 convey us to Rhodes, whence we proposed to 

 make our way to Paros, at which island we 

 expected to find the Beacon. 



During the time we had been with the party at 

 Xanthus, our Greeks had bivouacked on the oppo- 

 site bank of the river at Bosolook, close to the 

 Latoum. Before starting we re-examined the 

 ruins there. The theatre is of a singular form, 



