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A CRUSADE IN THE EAST. 
the most flattering progress, it failed from want of encourage¬ 
ment. The result was not sufficiently magical to arouse the 
Turks from their habitual lethargy; the productions of the 
earth did not spring up in a single night, like some of their 
fabled temples ; and money began to grow scarce, or, at 
least, was found to be more satisfactorily invested in purchas¬ 
ing good faith from bad ministers, or replenishing the harem 
with fresh supplies of fat cattle from the mountains of Cau¬ 
casus. The director and his family, after undergoing all the 
toils, and privations of a long sojourn among a besotted and 
barbarous people, and suffering in health and purse, were 
finally compelled to give up all hope of success, and return to 
their native land ; where, it is to be hoped, they are by this 
time surrounded by the comforts of home and the blessings of 
civilization. 
