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the after-part of the hold being occupied by our CHAP. 
cots and baggage. Here, when we endeavoured 
to lie down for rest, we were over-run by 
swarms of stinking cock-roaches ': we remained 
therefore sitting upon some planks that we had 
placed to serve as a floor, with our heads touch- 
ing the roof which the deck afforded, sustaining 
the violent motion of the vessel, and anxiously 
expecting the coming of the morning. 
(l) BLATTA ORIENTALIS. Linn. The modern Greeks call it Kalsa- 
tida. According to Sonnini, they consecrate the festival of St. 
Gregory to these disgusting and troublesome insects. Trav. in Greece) 
p. 1-85. Land. 1801. 
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