(54 ISLAND OF PATMOS. ' 
PHILE, with the other Tracts, the two volumes 
containing the Greek Musical Notes, and the 
volume of Miscellanies containing the LEXICON* 
OF ST. C FRILL: these we instantly concealed 
beneath a mattress in one of our cots; and 
making a grand display of the loaves, returned 
with the basket upon deck, giving a handsome 
present to the porter, and desiring he would 
inform the Superior, with our most grateful 
acknowledgments, that " all was perfectly right'' 
Having set him again on shore, we gave ciders 
to our Captain to have every thing ready for 
sailing the next morning, and to stand out of 
the port as soon after sun-rise as possible ; in- 
tending to leave Patmos. 
In this design we were, however, disap- 
pointed ; but as the delay which ensued gave us 
an opportunity of discovering some curious 
geological phenomena, we had no reason to 
regret that we were thus detained. 
Fruitless At seven o'clock the next morning, the wind 
attempt to 
leave the served, and we hoisted sail. Steering east out 
Island. 
of the harbour, and then putting the head of 
our caique towards the north, we endeavoured 
to double the north-eastern point of the island. 
Tournefort, who is always accurate, published, 
