122 FROM THE CIMMERIAN BOSPORUS, 
chap, not acknowledge his distress. We visited the 
. . - ^ cottage where his effects were preserved. Near 
to a window lay an odd volume of Ariosto : this 
we found to be the only book reserved for his 
last hours, all the rest being locked up by himself, 
a short time before his death. In a corner of 
his miserable bed-room stood an English trunk, 
with its lock towards the wall. The old woman 
of the house said she was afraid to move it. 
When we had turned it, we found it sealed, and 
a paper fastened across the lock, with a long 
inscription in modern Greek, purporting that the 
trunk should be sent unopened to his brother, 
in Constantinople : this we immediately ordered 
to be done. The inscription ended by menacing 
with the vengeance of every saint and devil the 
wretch who should presume to break the seal, 
and to inspect the contents of this trunk. 
Portress. Entering the fortress, which is now a ruin, 
we observed before the gate a beautiful marble 
fountain, said to be the work of Turks, but 
composed of antient materials; exhibiting not 
only Turkish characters, but also Greek inscrip- 
tions of more remote date. Over the entrance 
is one of the large marble lions mentioned in a 
former page, the devices of Genoa. Marble 
columns, together with fragments of marble 
entablatures, lie scattered about, either upon 
