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TRAVELS IN AFIUCA. Chap. LXXXV. 
It was market day, and the open place interven- 
ing between the plantation of the Meshiah and 
the town was full of life and bustle. The soldiers 
who had recently arrived from Europe to quell the 
revolution, were drawn up on the beach in order to 
make an impression on the natives, and I observed a 
good many fine sturdy men among them. Amidst 
this busy scene, in the most dazzling sunshine, with 
the open sea and the ships on my right, I entered the 
snow-white walls of the town, and was most kindly 
received by all my former friends. 
Having stayed four days in Tripoli, I embarked in a 
Turkish steamer which had brought the troops and 
was returning to Malta, and having made only a short 
stay in that island, I again embarked in a steamer 
for Marseilles, in order to reach England by the 
most direct route. Without making any stay in 
Paris, I arrived in London on the 6th September, 
and was most kindly received by Lord Palmerston as 
well as by Lord Clarendon, who took the greatest 
interest in the remarkable success which had accom- 
panied my proceedings. 
Thus I closed my long and exhausting career as an 
African explorer, of which these volumes endeavour 
to incorporate the results. Having previously gained 
a good deal of experience of African travelling during 
an extensive journey through Barbary, I had em- 
barked on this undertaking as a volunteer, under the 
most unfavourable circumstances for myself. The 
scale and the means of the mission seemed to be ex- 
