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I knew that one week would suffice to stop the revolt in Crete, as without the blockade-runners the insurrectionists had positively nothing to eat. Having recalled the vessels I had sent to chase the 'Enossis' into Syra harbour, I steamed in the roads off that port, and anchored with three vessels.
Taking the mark of gold at 84 oz. and valuing the ounce at 4£ 17s, 6d, the sum of 20 marks amounts to L. 780 Sterling. Of the Exaltation of Cuyne as Emperor. We remained in this place, called Syra Orda, about four weeks.
We cast anchor in the harbour of Lavalette at seven o'clock. During the whole of our journey from Alexandria the wind had been very unfavourable; the sea was frequently so agitated, that we could not walk across the deck without the assistance of a sailor. The distance from Alexandria via Syra to Malta is 950 sea-miles. We took eight days to accomplish this distance, landing only at Syra.
Plautus, who makes the old slave Syra ask why there is not the same law in this respect for the husband as for the wife, had preceded the legist Ulpian who wrote: "It seems to be very unjust that a man demands chastity of his wife while he himself shows no example of it."
Fleda said, "Oh, no!" and Miss Quackenboss remarked, that "she thought she wa'n't;" whereby Fleda perceived it had been a subject of discussion. "She lives like one, don't she?" said aunt Syra. Which imputation Fleda also refuted to the best of her power. "Well, don't she have dinner in the middle of the afternoon?" pursued aunt Syra. Fleda was obliged to admit that.
Syra, Syra; for God's sake bring me something, however small, that looks like a garment! How rational is the fashion of the people of Africa whom we met with on our journey. If they have three fingers' breadth of cloth about them, they consider themselves elegantly dressed. But come, sit down there, at my feet. A seat, Argos, and some wine, and water in a damp clay pitcher, and cool like the last.
The communications between Constantinople and Candia would already have begun but for an accident to the engineer. Those with Syra and the Piraeus will begin as soon as the ratification of the convention entered into between the Ottoman and Greek governments on this subject shall have taken place.
In the evening I tried one more walk in Syra with A , but in vain endeavoured to amuse myself or to spend money; the first effort resulting in singing 'Doodah' to a passing Greek or two, the second in spending, no, in making A spend, threepence on coffee for three. "May 16. "On coming on deck, I found we were at anchor in Canea bay, and saw one of the most lovely sights man could witness.
In the three years of almost breaking strain of our residence in the midst of the anarchy of the insurrection, she had only the few days' relief from anxiety of her stay in Syra, while waiting the arrival of the Kestrel, but in all that time I never saw her make the least display of trepidation or anxiety, until the dispatch came from Secretary Washburn to tell us that the salary would be stopped.
I remained off Syra with two ships, one being a despatch boat, watching the movements of the three blockade-runners, to whom I notified that I would sink them if they attempted to leave the port. I often wonder they didn't make a rush for it on the first night of my arrival, when I was almost alone. The Greeks never want pluck.
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