196 FROM CONSTANTINOPLE, 
CHAP, to the critical state of his health ; and he died 
'_ . soon after our departure. On the morning of 
Kau%r^ this day, a noise was heard upon the stairs of 
the hotel leading to our apartments ; when 
looking over the balustrade, we saw our fine 
Epidaurian wolf-dog, Kordhl, which we lost at 
Thebes, actually dragging up a Greek sailor, who 
held him by a rope, and who came with him 
from Athensy bringing letters from our friend 
Lusieri, and from the Consul at Tenos, to whose 
care Lusieri had consigned the dog, to be forwarded 
to Constantinople. We have already related the 
manner in which this noble animal was found, 
making the best of his way to Athens, after we 
lost him at TAe^e^'. The author also took leave 
of a Gree7cP/7«c<?, Alexander Bang Hantzerli, 
owing to whose friendly offices he was enabled 
to purchase some valuable Greek Manuscripts; 
and received commissions for some books which 
he wished to obtain from Paris ; among others, 
the famous French Encyclopedie, in thirty-five 
folio volumes ^ 
All things being in readiness, on the morning 
of April the Jirst, about ten o'clock, we set out 
(j) See p. G2 of our Seventh Volume, Note (l), 
(2) A superb copy of this work was afterwards sent to him in Con- 
stantinople, and lie received it safe. It was from Prvice Hantzertl that 
the author obtained, after his return to England, the fine Codex of 
the Greek Orators, now iu the British Museum. 
