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Updated: June 10, 2025
In June 1833, Willis was invited by the officers of an American frigate to accompany them on a six months' cruise in the Mediterranean. This was far too good an offer to be refused, since it would have been impossible to get a peep at the East under more ideal conditions of travel. In the island of AEgina he was introduced to Byron's Maid of Athens, once the beautiful Teresa Makri, now plain Mrs.
Here is the entry made in the note-book on the eventful day: "In the morning steamed into the bay of Glaucus landed at Makri cheerful old desolate village theatre by the beautiful sea-shore great fertility, oleanders a palm-tree in the midst of the village, spreading out like a Sultan's aigrette sculptured caverns, or tombs, up the mountain camels over the bridge."
At the battle of Makri he had led the charge of cavalry, and pursued the fugitives even to the banks of the Hebrus. His favourite horse was found grazing by the margin of the tranquil river. It became a question whether he had fallen among the unrecognized; but no broken ornament or stained trapping betrayed his fate.
I can see a little minaret, and some spreading palm-trees; but, beyond these, the description would answer as well for Bantry Bay as for Makri. You could write so far, nay, much more particularly and grandly, without seeing the place at all, and after reading Beaufort's "Caramania," which gives you not the least notion of it.
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