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and was at length obliged to abandon all 
hopes of obtaining a meal in this way, while 
our men laughed heartily at the disappoint¬ 
ment of “ II Signor Lungo,”* as they called 
me. 
The day before we arrived we fell in with 
a French pilot, from whom we obtained a 
supply of bread, the only article of food he 
could spare us. It was very dry and stale, 
but we thought it delicious, and made a 
hearty meal on it. 
We landed at this port on Sunday, April 
27th, and we shall leave it again to-morrow 
for Bordeaux. The prospect of travelling 
four hundred miles in a rumbling, sluggish 
diligence is not agreeable, but we console 
ourselves with thinking that whatever incon¬ 
veniences we may be subjected to on the 
* “ The long gentleman,” 
