Did not get to sleep till daylight - the mosquitoes and fleas intolerable - got up with a slight fever and pains in ray limbs - have done wrong in taking the bath yesterday - spent the day as well as possible under the circumstances - the coffees under the large shady plane trees an the resort in the early part of the day say after church -

Then met Mr. & Mrs. Brown the American consul - Mrs. B.- quite an agreeable lady has been married near a year - is nice to Commodore Porter the A Ambassador, has two very pretty lap dogs - there was also a young arminian who was sent to America by the missionaries to be educated - passed himself off as the son of a banker & persuaded a daughter of Doct Skinner of N York to marry him, she had some fortune & Mr. Scarap is spending it for her - she did not make her appearance among the rest - Mr. Brown is going to spend some months here and has taken a small house he is from Chilicothe in Ohio -

Held up my head as well as I could but eat nothing - in the evening the promenade was crowded - mostly ladies and appeared to enjoy themselves - had to retire early, but not to sleep for that was out of the question -

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This is Saturday - a party is proposed to go to the islands and spend a day or two - at Noon took a Turkish sweating Bath called Hummum - found the attendants very attentive - were handed sherbets & coffee -paid them ten piastres - at 3 oclock - set off for the Princes Islands (see Bosphorus map on the right) -

A large caique - Mr. Sazaro and his three daughters - the youngest is alone pretty - hoisted sail - the ladies much alarmed - also Ruboli - who is a great coward - do not myself like the large sails to such light boats, but in this case was no danger - had to put down sail to pacify Ruboli and the ladies - did not arrive untill near 7 o'clock - Mr. Ruboli and his little daughters at the landing with open arms - dont admire the house we put up at - sure of mosquitoes if not bugs & fleas as before -

After dinner walking up and down the promenade on the beach began to have a slight head ache - did not like to retire to bed for fear of mosquitoes remained walking about until 12 o clock - numbers of Perotes were there come to spend the Sunday like ourselves. Mr. Longworth & myself turned in our beds on the floor in the room of a poor woman everything looked clean, but these old wooden houses are sad receptacles of tormentors - neither chair or table in the room -

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Sitting writing in my room when in comes my landlord Ruboli - looking very serious - and began - des mauvaises nouvelles Mons- a case of plague here at Pera - a catholic priest - lately from Alexandria opend a trunk which had been neglected in the fumigation - he is attacked and not expected to live - this is certainly bad news - as intercourse is impeded - quarantines doubled - and so on - my plan of going to Vienna by way of the Danube is now at an end -

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After breakfast this morning in company with Mr. Sangworth - the author of Circassia - took a caique to visit the Cyanean rocks in the Black Sea at the entrance of the Bosphorus - owing to a head wind and the strong current even our six oared Caique made but slow progress stopped half an hour at Therapia and lunched - found Capt. Shirley and his party - who I met with at Broussa - the British frigate lying here was dressed out in flags - in honour of the french three days -

After passing the many fortresses with which the entrance of the Bosphorus is lined came to Fanaraki - the village of the lighthouse - lies at the extreme point of the European side of the Bosphorus and in the Black sea - opposite to it on the Cyanean rocks or the Symplegades thro which Jason steered the Argonauts - and against which the waves of the Euxine beat with great fury -

On the principal rock we landed- clambering up the precipitous side to the top - where stands a mutilated column said to be the remains of an alter erected by the romans to Apollo - we had an interesting view around, for numerous sails were thronging in and out of the Bosphorus, and on the asiatic coast was jutting out the Cape anciently Cape Ancyrceum and was the place whence Jason took his stone anchor and left behind on the Phasis -

At the risk of our limbs we got down again - and were soon gliding along the beautifull Bosphorus, the shores of which by the light of the setting sun were enchanting, in two hours we had already passed the Sultans palaces of Dolna Bagschi & Begler Bey and by eight o clock were landed at Tophanna - paying our civil & well conducted Turkish boatmen three dollars for their caique and services - -

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Did not go out much these two days - the weather hot, have concluded to leave Constane by the Steamer of the 7th Augt

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Coming on deck at 5 this morning found we had made very slow progress the little steamer was top heavy upwards of a hundred passengers on deck - and among them the governor of Kutayah - his son and secretary, his women with their squalling children occupied half the quarter deck - he was a fine mild looking lasy old man his secretary offered me a chibouk -which I could neither smoke nor thank him for his politness - there was also the greek bishop of Gimlick which they call despote - at 12 oclock stopped off the island of Frinkipo to take in passengers about 50 came on board to return to the city - gentlemen who had been spending the Sunday thore - in a couple of hours were in the harbour of Constantinople - - -

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Left Broussa early this morning for Gimlick - to embark in the boat (Steam) for Conste— was unfortunate in getting a lame horse so that a quarrel ensued between Giovanni and the Surogee -

We were seven hours in going to Gimlick- called at a farm lately purchased by two eng gentlemen of Constane— - it is a flat piece of land on the shore of the bay say about 2 miles square- it has just produced a good crop of wheat - but was now swarming with grasshoppers and parched with drought - the manager and several others were laid up with fever - understand this large tract of land only cost L2000 -

This was market day at Gimlick and principally for the sale of raw silk - after a warm ride was glad to get on board the steamer, where there was an agreeable breeze from the water - at 11 at night set sail

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