28 ISLAND OF COS. 
Stratagem for obtaining the Greek Manuscripts 
Fruitless attempt to leave the island View of Sanios 
Icaria Western port of Patmos Geological phte* 
nomena Plants and animals Marble Cippi Depar- 
ture from Patmos Prognostics of Greek mariners. 
CHAP. ON Tuesday, October the sixth, as we were 
sitting with the Governor, a Greek officer of the 
name f Rityj who had been interpreter to 
Colonel, now Sir Charles Holloway, in the Turkish 
army, arrived from Grand Cairo with despatches 
from the Viiier. He brought letters for us from 
England, which had been sent first to Constanti- 
nople, and then to Egypt, and yet reached us 
with so recent a date as the twelfth of August. 
When he entered the Governor's apartment, we 
supposed him to be a Turk : he wore the Turkish 
habit, and conversed with great fluency in the 
Turkish language : presently, to our surprise, he 
addressed us in English ; and afterwards gave 
us intelligence of all that had happened at Cairo 
since we left that city. A report had reached 
him, after he sailed from Egypt, that the Vizier 
had been ordered into exile, to Giddah, where 
the air is supposed to be so unwholesome, that 
the punishment of being banished thither is con- 
sidered as almost equivalent to death. Hearing 
that we intended to visit Patmos, he requested a 
passage thither in our vessel : his wife resided 
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