450 INLAND OF COS. 
CHAP, his proposals were rejected. In consequence of 
I.. ,. ' his disappointment, he bought some poison and 
destroyed himself. The Turkish police instantly 
arrested the father of the young woman, as the 
cause, by implication, of the man's death : under 
the fifth species of homicide, he became therefore 
amenable for this act of suicide. When the 
cause came before the Magistrate, it was urged 
literally by the accusers, that ''Ifhe, the accused, 
had not had a daughter, tlie deceased woidd not 
have fallen in love ; consequently, he would not have 
been disappointed ; consequently, he icould not have 
swallowed poison ; consequently, he would not have 
died : — but he, the accused, had a daughter ; and the 
deceased had fallen in love ; and had been disap- 
Jjointed ; and had swallowed poison ; and had died.' 
Upon all these counts, he was called upon to 
pay the price of the young man's life ; and this, 
being fixed at the sum of eighty piastres, was 
accordingly exacted. 
Popuia- The population of Cos had much diminished 
merce, and of latc ycars. Thcrc were formerly 20,000 
Coi. inhabitants ; and of this number only eight or 
ten thousand now remained. Three thousand 
had been carried off by a severe plague the 
year before; and great numbers had been 
draughted, to serve as soldiers in the war. 
