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A CRUSADE IN THE EAST. 
Our return to Athens was devoid of incident. Doctor 
Mendoza and the Madam were delighted to get hack to the 
Orient. The Madam was “indispose;” and the doctor de¬ 
clared that without dinner it was “ imposs to exiss.” 
I spent the evening at the residence of Mr. Hill the Ameri¬ 
can Missionary. No American who has visited Athens and 
enjoyed the acquaintance of this gentleman, can feel other 
than the highest sentiments of esteem and admiration for his 
character and talents, and a national pride in his successful 
dissemination of knowledge and of the true principles of Chris¬ 
tianity among the rising generation of Greeks. His school is 
well attended by the most intelligent classes of Greek chil¬ 
dren ; who by the admirable manner in which it is conducted 
soon become capable of teaching what they have learned 
themselves; and in this way the cause of education and 
Christianity is making rapid progress. Some of my most 
agreeable recollections of Athens are associated with the few 
brief hours spent in the society of Mr. Hill and his accom¬ 
plished family. 
Bidding good-by to my Portuguese friends, who had made 
up their minds to “ repose” a while at the Orient after the 
fatigues of the “ voyage” to Eleusis, I looked for the last time 
at the glorious Acropolis, shook from my feet the dust of 
Greece, which is living Greece no more, and departed on my 
journey eastward. 
