“I am a good deal better, though of course weakly; the leeches took too much blood from my temples the day after, and there was some difficulty in stopping it, but I have since been up daily, and out in boats or on horseback. To-day I have taken a warm bath, and live a temperately as can well be, without any liquid but water, and without animal food.
“Besides the four Turks sent to Patras, I have obtained the
release of four-and-twenty women and children, and sent them at my own
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“I am obliged to support the Government here for the present.”
