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| and had placed one enormous gun in the prow, to intimidate 
pirates; observing dryly to us, as we surveyed it, that we should 
be lucky if it did not cany the gib-boom under water, in rough 
weather. It was amusing to notice the sort of speculation, 
which occupied not only the hold but every part of the vessel, 
where ,it w 7 as possible to cram an article of food or merchandize. 
Barrels of Adrianople; tongues, candles, tea, sugar, cheese; 
butter of the Ukraine, already in an oily state, and oozing 
through the sides of the casks; wine, onions, cordage, iron,.bis¬ 
cuit, cloth, pens, paper, hard ware, hats, shoes, tobacco, and 
fruit. A few sheep were, moreover, huddled together close to 
the gun in the forecastle. 
During our stay at the Dardanelles, we had lived in the 
house of the Neapolitan consul. This respectable old man 
put in force a stratagem which may serve to show the extraor¬ 
dinary power of imagination over diseases of the body. Being 
troubled with an intermitting fever, brought on during our ex¬ 
cursion in Trees, I had been observed by him to go frequently 
to a dock, in the antechamber of our apartment, watching for 
the hour when the paroxysm began. This used to occur ex¬ 
actly at noon. One morning he put back the dock a full hour. 
At twelve, therefore, I had no fear of my fever, for the index 
pointed to eleven: and at one, although the hour seemed to be 
present, the paroxysm did uot take place. Unfortunately, 
pleased by the success oi his experiment, he told me what had 
happened; and after the usual interval, the fever again re¬ 
turned. By the same manner, all the charms used among the 
lower order of people in this country, operate in the cure of 
agues. The tomb of Protesilaus, as related by Philostratus,* 
was anciently resorted to unhealing a quartan fever 
We received great civilities from the pacha. He sent one 
of his officers with our Greek servant, to collect some marbles 
we wished to remove from Troas ; a work generally attended 
with difficulty, owing to a notion the Turks have, that Chris¬ 
tians can extract gold from such stone. The ceremony of his 
daughter’s marriage with the sou of an Asiatic viceroy, called, 
by way of eminence, The pacha of Asia, nd said to be lord over 
a hundred villages,. took place during the time we remained. 
Upon this occasion, public sports were exhibited, and we had 
an opportunity of seeing a magnificent, celebration of the game 
of djirit, the tournament of the Turks. This very ancient 
:, y&Uoatrat. i$ Heroicis.-r-See. also Chandler’s Ilium,, p. 142 . 
