CHAP. XIV.

Arrival at Marmorice-Excellent HarbourInteresting Vicinity-Description of the Mosque-Author present at their Devotions-Manner of Worship-Apparent Devotion-Hospital on Shore-Recovery of the Sick-View and Productions of this extensive Bay--Inhabitants---Turkish

Dress---Dress---Appearance, Agility, Strength, and Industry of the Grecian Women-Turkish Females-DepartureVisit Karagatch-Eligible Spot for the Sick Alarmed by Wolves Simple Method of intimidating them-Peregrinations of the Author and Comrades through the Woods - Discover HutsCaution of the Inhabitants-Acquire Confidence-Friendship-Manners-HabitsFortitude, Strength, and Perseverance of the Women.

IN a serene and reviving morning we passed into the bay or gulf: full of ideas, created by the expectation of soon seeing more

interesting objects, we were borne to the other extremity, and entered its westermost harbour of Marmora, in the neighbourhood of Rhodes, the same evening.

This also appears an extraordinary entrance; at first view, the low part of a peninsula appears the only passage, but on drawing near, the apparent deception vanishes, and the real entrance opens. This entrance is narrow and safe, and conveys into as fine and capacious an harbour as I ever beheld, surrounded with immense ridges of mountains, many of whose majestic summits, capped with snow, often projecting their lofty tops above the clouds, strike the mind with the sublimity of nature..

At the N. E. part is the town, of some note among the Turks. On our visiting it, I found a similarity in its irregular and illconstructed buildings with those we had just left at Macri; but the mosque appeared far superior; its dome is conspicuous from every part of the harbour. On a nearer inspection it proved to be built of

coarse stone, the roof of an oval form, with a dome.

I was favoured with an opportunity of entering the mosque on a particular day, when worship was performed by a crowded audience; the attendance was so full, that many knelt down in the outer court. At their entrance, after throwing off their slip. pers, they all fell on their knees, and after a short pause, and uttering something very fast, they joined the general chorus, which to me appeared thanksgiving. From an erect posture they often fell in a state of prostration, and kneeling, and after joining the general service again in these positions, would often pause, and appear in mental prayer between, and then in a moment spring on their feet again, and join the chorus, which was sometimes so loud, that it became a shout. The leader's voice was heard distinctly during the more moderate exclamations, and all seemed to pay great attention to his manner, and to follow his motions with aptitude; and during the whole service, not one of them, that I

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could perceive, sat down. able activity, in falling at once from their legs on their knees, and even to a state of prostration, and frequently rising without the assistance of their hands, excited my surprize. They in general appeared very attentive to the service they were engaged in, and their whole behaviour, in a false religion, was such as might form a lesson to many careless Christians, so called, who are to be found in every audience, slighting, and treating with indifference, the inestimable privilege of having instruction how to worship "God in spirit and in "truth."

Several of the ship's company being sickly, and fearing the increase of contagion, the first object was to fix on an eligi. ble spot on shore, on which to erect tents for their reception. This was soon perform. ed, the sick were removed, and the vessel cleansed and purified, by washing with vinegar, and smoking the hold and decks throughout, which proved beneficial, and appeared to stop the prevalency of disease.

Such were the pleasing effects at our hospital on shore, that the most of those removed, were, in a few days, evidently on the recovery. Good air, pleasing prospects around, and the verdant spot on which they were situated, with attention and care, under Providence, soon made several of their countenances beam with health and vigour.

This delightful bay is many miles round, and exhibits much of the picturesque and sublime of nature. The mountains and precipices are often covered with active animals, principally goats, and intersected with water-falls, which, during the rainy seasons (a description of which will be given hereafter) swell into cataracts, and often deluge the vales and plains below. The declivities and eminences, with the more level parts, are covered with abundance of myrtle, much of which grows to an extraordinary size, and the more woody parts heighten the contrast seen in this comprehensive view; the vales appear delightful, and are certainly capable of a high

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