78 ISLAND OF PATMOS. 
CHAP, wards used as the subject of one of his critical 
dissertations '. 
Departure This being the evening of the sixth day since 
from Pat- J 
< our first arrival in Patmos, and perhaps being as 
well acquainted with it as if we had spent a 
year in its examination, we became impatient to 
leave it; and began to fancy, that as our caique, 
was hired by the month, its owners would 
create as much delay as possible, and loiter in 
port when they might safely venture out. Ac- 
cordingly, after midnight, having roused the 
Captain, we told him that it was a fine night, 
and that we wished he would put to sea. This 
man was one of the most experienced pilots of 
the Archipelago, and as worthy a Greek as ever 
navigated these seas; but we had not at that 
time learned to place the confidence in him 
which he so highly deserved. He was very 
poor ; and having become a widower in an early 
period of his life, had suffered his beard to grow, 
according to the manner of mourning in his 
native Isle of Casos, wearing at the same time a 
black turban. Without making any answer to 
our proposal, he continued, for the space of a 
(I) \i<\.~Lwiani O,>era, torn. III. p. 186. "Pro lapsu in Satu- 
Edit. Reitz. JUjxtnt. 1790. 
