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long boat to the Black Sea, as he was desirous of hoisting there* 
for the (list time, the American flag; and upon his return, were 
amused by a very singular entertainment at his table during 
dinner. Upon the four corners were as many decanters, con¬ 
taining fresh water from the four quarters of the globe. The 
natives of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, sat down to¬ 
gether to the same table, and were regaled with Gesh, fruity 
bread, and other viands; while, of every article, a sample from 
each quarter of the globe was presented at the same time. 
The means of accomplishing this are easily explained, by his 
having touched at Algiers, in his passage from America, and 
being at anchor so near the shores both of Europe and Asia. 
Soon after, news came to Constantinople of the expedition to 
Egypt, under General Sir Ralph Abercrombie; and intelligence 
of the safe arrival of the British Geet, with our army, in the 
bay of Marmorice. The captidan pacha, on board whose mag¬ 
nificent ship, the Sultan Selim, we had been with our ambassa¬ 
dor previous to the sailing of the Turkish squadron for Egypt, 
ordered a corvette to be left for us to follow r him; having heard 
that my brother, Captain George Clarke, of the Braakel, was 
with the Geet in Marmorice, to w hom he expressed a desire of 
being afterward introduced. Nothing could exceed the 
liberality of the Turkish admiral upon this occasion. He sent 
for the captain of the corvette, and in our presence, gave orders 
to have it stored with all sorts of provisions, and even with 
wines ; adding also, that knives, forks, chairs, and other conve- 
niencies, which Turks do not use, would be found on board. 
We sailed in this vessel on the second of March; and salu 
ting the seraglio as we passed with twenty-one guns, the shock 
broke all the glass in our cabin windows. Our Turkish crew* 
quite ignorant of marine affairs, ran back at the report of their 
own cannon ; trusting entirely to a few Greeks and some French 
prisoners, to manage all the concerns of the vessel. We were 
not sorry to get away from the unwholesome place in which we 
had lived, and to view the mosques and minarets of Constanti¬ 
nople, disappearing in the mists of the sea of Marmora, as we 
steered with a fair wind for the Hellespont.^ Toward even- 
& “ I quitted Constantinople at the «nd of autumn, 1806, for the purpose of visiting 
the Troad a second time, and examining it with more accuracy than in the spring of 
the year. The Greek vessel in rvhich I embarked was bound to Tricchiri, a little 
town on the coast of Thessaly. The Greek vessels are in general tilled with great 
numbers of Greeks, all of whom have a share, large or small, in the ship, and its mer¬ 
chandize. The vast profits which the Greeks reaped about ten years past, when they 
carried corn to the ports of France and'Spain, from the Black Sea and Greece, particu- 
iaiiy Thessaly, and from Caramania, excited a spirit of adventure and enterprise, which 
