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It might be supposed that Captain Fleetwood would first have gone in search of the speronara, but he considered that by so doing he should lose much valuable time without a prospect of gaining any adequate information; and he therefore resolved at once to sail to the eastward, touching at Cephalonia, on the chance of learning something to guide his future course.
"And now, tell we what would they have done?" "They would have you get rid of her," answered the mate, boldly. "It is what I am about to do," returned the captain. "I purpose landing her at Cephalonia." "What, without a ransom!" exclaimed Baldo. "With or without a ransom, as the case may be," said Zappa, coldly.
The Ione touched at Cephalonia on her voyage to Malta, where the colonel found that, as he was supposed to be lost, another officer had been appointed to his post. This, however, was much to his satisfaction, as he was anxious to return to England to make arrangements for the marriage of his niece.
Most of the people were ordered to keep quiet below, while Mr Vernon, in plain clothes, went on shore in the dinghy. He came back in a short time, and reported that he could gain no tidings answering to the description of the William. My own knowledge of Cephalonia is but slight; but Stallman, who had been there before, gave me some information about it.
Not another word did he say, but he gave a last lingering look at the craft he had so long commanded, and then turned away his head. Our lugs were hoisted, for the wind had come round to the southward, and away we stood for Cephalonia.
It will be seen that he had to go round visiting the chief islands, Corfu, Cephalonia and Zante, and ascertain from the governors if they had any grievances to be remedied. He had no positive orders for his guidance, but only 'act as you think most fit. Often he found himself in difficulties without even an interpreter, and so obliged to make himself understood, if he could, in French.
Byron remained at or about Cephalonia till the close of the year.
As to the Great Adventurer himself, he died in the island of Cephalonia in the very year of the Pope’s death at Salerno and was buried beside his first wife, the gentle Alberada, at Venosa in Apulia, though the city which he had always loved and favoured would seem to have offered a more appropriate spot for his interment.
It is of very small extent, and even in the days of its greatness, when its lords entitled themselves counts of Cephalonia and Neophantis, kings of Arles and Vienne, princes of Achaia and emperors of Constantinople even at this flourishing period, when, as M. Jules Canonge remarks, "they were able to depress the balance in which the fate of peoples and kings is weighed," the plucky little city contained at the most no more than thirty-six hundred souls.
To port, backed by the bold heights of the Grecian sea-range, lay the hoary mount, and the red cliffs, 780 feet high, of Sappho's Leap, a never-forgotten memory. Starboard rose bleak Ithaca, fronting the black mountain of Cephalonia, now bald and bare, but clothed with dark forests till these were burnt down by some mischievous malignant.
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