Rose this morning almost free from the pain of yesterday and was very thankfull - after breakfast enjoyed passage on board french steamer Sycurgue to Athens price 180 francs - the vessel is in quarantine ground where I have to go at five O'clock tomorrow morning to embark -

At the recommendation of Capt. Clegg bought Murray's hand book (pictured left) for the east which have no doubt is full of usefull information - today went to the public library and found it highly interesting for the books mostly old and rare works formerly the property of the Knights - spent several hours in reading an old Italian folio - the antiquities of Sicily - most of the books are latin, french and Italian it is open 6 hours every day -

Dined at the table l' hote (guest) of Madam Goubow and was much amused with a young miss who spoke fluently English, french, Italian and Maltese - only nine years old, a native of Palermo in Sicily - in the evening waled in the garden Floriana whilst admiring the flowers came accross of a pair of glorious black eyes - real luminaries - and under a black silk hood - afterwards came to my hotel - prepared my trunk and wrote this far in my journal

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