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notwithstanding my efforts to support and keep him up; 
but as this fall happened by two movements, and . not 
very suddenly, I did not receive any harm. This was 
happily the only fail I received during all my travels in 
Africa and Asia. 
A little after mid-day we passed through a village, 
and at one o'clock crossed a superb bridge, from 
whence we descended into a Valley, and followed suc- 
cessively the banks of two rivers, which we were 
obliged to traverse several times. We had hardly left 
the windings of these rivers, when we passed over an 
ancient highway, constructed in the middle of a marsh. 
Between this marsh and the sea, is the poor village of 
Hersek. We were obliged to embark with our horses, 
to cross the Gulf of Isnikmid, which is an arm of the 
sea, that runs several leagues inland, and is about a 
league and a half -in breadth at this place. 
As the wind was unfavourable, our vessel or kaik> 
as it is called in the country, was obliged to make a 
long tack of half an hour towards the east, and another 
of three quarters of an hour towards the N.W. to gain 
the opposite shore. We disembarked in the small port 
of an inconsiderable village, where the passage- vessels 
usually anchor. 
We continued our journey among some mountains, 
and arrived at eight in the evening, at another village. 
My Tartars had reckoned on employing three days 
in making the journey which we had made this day. 
Wednesday, 21st October* 
Our cavalcade set off at sun-rise. We had the most 
miserable horses I ever saw, on which account our 
progress was very tardy. We followed the shore of the 
Sea of Marmora in a W.N.W. direction; I observed 
