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the short time I staid there, he appeared to me to keep 
the country in very good order. 
Tuesday 29th September* 
It was noon when 1 received intimation that the ship 
was ready. I wished to leave immediately, but I was 
obliged to stay till the next day. 
In the evening after supper, a French officer in a 
Tartar's dress, coming from Constantinople to go to 
Persia, presented himself at the governor's house, and 
believing that it was to me he ought to address himself, 
he lodged a complaint against a Tartar, who did not 
furnish him quick enough with the horses necessary to 
continue his route towards Aleppo. After having tran- 
quillized him, and pointed out the governor to him, 
I arranged the thing, and offered him my services. 
He went away afterwards quite satisfied with his re- 
ception.* 
Wednesday, 30th September. 
Having bid adieu to the honest governor, I set out 
at eight o'clock in the morning, and having crossed 
the Orontes upon a bridge, I followed the right bank 
at a short distance from the river, ascending and de- 
scending mountains, and making a thousand turns, 
which prevented me from observing always the exact 
direction of my road. I believe, however, that it was in 
general towards the W.S.W. 
I halted about ten o'clock in a district planted with 
very fine gardens, and after continuing my journey in 
the same direction as before, I arrived about two o'clock 
* This officer was Mr. Truilhier, commandant of artillery in 
the army of the south of Spain. (Note of the Editor,) 
