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SALVATION AND GLORY AND HONOUR AND CHAP 
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How very different were the reflections caused, Kraics. 
upon leaving the deck, by observing a sailor 
with a lighted match in his hand, and our 
Captain busied in appointing an extraordinary 
watch for the night, as a precaution against the 
pirates, who swarm in these seas. Those 
wretches, dastardly as well as cruel, the in- 
stant they board a vessel, put every individual 
of the crew to death. They lurk about the Isle 
of Fourni, in great numbers ; taking possession 
of bays and creeks the least frequented by other 
mariners. After they have plundered a ship, 
and murdered the crew, they bore a hole 
through her bottom, sink her, and take to their 
boats again- 
(3) An extract from Mr. JVulpole's Journal, containing? an account 
of his journey from Smyrna to Hullcarmisms, will here give the 
Reader some information concerning the coast along which we were 
now sailing. 
" As many of the monuments and superb remains on the coast of 
Asia have been minutely and faithfully described in the Ionian Anti- 
quities, and by Chandler, I shall not repeat their remarks. The 
various inscriptions which I copied, both on the coast, and in the interior 
of the country, many of them entirely unknown, cannot obtain room 
here. I shall state a few miscellaneous remarks, which occurred as I 
travelled along the coast southward to Halicarnassus, 
" The country between Smyrna and Ephesus is very mountainous : 
in one part of the road, near the Caister, you pass the base of the 
auticnt Gallesus, under most frightful precipices, the habitation of 
some 
