After a cup of tea and these grapes, I slept till two o'clock, which was the end of my sleep for that night, brought to a very undesirable termination by my guide bawling out for the muleteer, supposing it was morning. My rest and restoratives had so refreshed me that I could sit by a hole in the wall and look out upon the sheet of the Mediterranean waters lying beneath. We were on the side of a mountain and could hear the roaring of the breakers, disturbing the otherwise profound silence in which all nature lay reposing.

We left our kind host about five o'clock in the morning and my spirits were elevated with the expectation that our journey was about to close, and that Beyrout would soon make its appearance. But what was my disappointment to find that another night was to be spent in a miserable ruin, a little straw on some stones for a couch, and a wide yawning arch fore and aft, letting in the view of heaven's canopy, and the sweet gentle breeze from the Mediterranean which was about a hundred yards from us. Let me not, however, repine or complain. Let me think of Him, who through all this very country performed his works of mercy, not at all considering his ease or convenience. We halted for a few moments again at Sour which is for the most part a squalid little Arab town, but, like many of the Syrian towns, boasting of two or three bazaars. You cannot think how like an old friend the Mediterranean appeared to me, but the chief charm, I confess, was its association with the near approach of the time when I hope to return to all that is preeminently dear to me.

When I arrived at Jaida, near Beyrout, and showed my passports, every kindness and comfort

that the town afforded were at once either offered or enjoyed. Here is another instance of the importance that our government should be represented abroad. Verily, it seems to me I should have died under one night's exposure more. My fever went off about eight, when I took a little supper and went to bed, sleeping finely until three, and about five we were again on our road. There were two or three things I should have been pleased to have examined with more observation, but time and health were not allowed. The oleander grating the brooks with its deep tinged colors gave a beauty to some parts, while the rocky passes or deep sand made other parts excessively annoying, particularly as the flies tormented the horse at such a rate that every five minutes he must come to a dead stand to bite them off from behind. At the most funeral

pace we thus wended our way, and not till near four o'clock did we accomplish a distance which need have taken with good horses only about five hours. My worthy friend Mr. Chassan received me with his former warmth of hospitality and said he was expecting me, and went to work with all his family to refresh the weary traveller. The next day I rose refreshed and as I hoped restored by repose, but I was soon convinced of my mistake. I took a bath in the sea and came in feeling very well, eating a good breakfast, and reading in my Prayer Book and Greek Testament. I then sat down to this journal, but before I had proceeded a page or two I felt the crawling of fever coming on, and accordingly soon had to give up to the highest degree of it I ever yet suffered. The doctor was sent for, who ordered medicine, which had considerable effect, and to-day I feel again better, but not free

from a crawling cold that admonishes me what I must expect again to-day. God's holy will be done Yes, another and another and another day of fever, and two bottles of quinine finished, but to-day, Saturday, thank God, I feel so much better as to be encouraged to hope I shall have no more return of it. In the midst of judgment my heavenly Father remembers mercy. The whole town is in a state of great consternation, families flying for refuge to ships (our Consul's,) and others to the mountains, as there are seven British line of battle ships commanded by Commodore Napier, who has ordered the Governor to surrender the troops or he will batter down the town. The Governor says he may batter and no resistance will be made, but if he lands he must expect no quarter from his men. So that within a little while we may expect some scenes of blood, and I may be blockaded here for months.s This danger I fear not, satisfied that that protecting arm which has as yet been ever over me for good will still preserve me from all evil. Sunday came and with it other great subjects of thankfulness, a great one for me that my fever did not return. All that now remained seemed that sad raising of blood, which if from my lungs I felt was the probable end of all my ministerial labors; and I fell to work to see what I would do if thus disabled, but in the night while feeling very uncomfortable in my throat, the lamp out and every soul wrapt in midnight sleep, I thought I would feel in my throat if I could perceive something that might be removed by medical skill: I did feel something like a piece of flesh and got hold of it and pulled it into my mouth. Thus far I was relieved, but the blood flowed profusely, and I did not like to proceed to cutting

it from my mouth lest it should be a blood vessel, so in this uncomfortable suspense I remained till morning. As soon as it was light I aroused Mr. Chassan who sent for the doctor, and when he opened my mouth he exclaimed, a leech! and so indeed there was a large leech that I must have swallowed in my journey without being sensible of it. The gentleman with difficulty could be persuaded to leave his quarters. However he was taken out, and now all difficulty in my throat is remedied, not however till twenty leeches were applied yesterday. I feel now like a new man, made a fine dinner and had what I much enjoyed, tomatoes and peaches. The latter, to my surprise, much inferior to ours. And now I am anxiously looking for the first ship to take me westward. I shall give up Constantinople without a sigh, and even Rome shall not stand much in my way to detain my eager footsteps.

Praised be my God who has relieved me from so great an apprehended trial. May I devote my life and health more undividedly to him than ever.

C

CHAPTER XI.

Illness on board H. M. S. Alecto-Death at Malta-Protracted and painful uncertainty of his friends—Rumors -Letter of B. Marshall, Esq.-Letter of Rev. C. F. Schlieuz-Letter of B. Marshall, Esq.-Extract from a letter of a passenger in the Alecto-Letter of U. S. Consul at Malta-Character of the deceased-Conclusion.

The journal of Dr. Bayard closes with the account of his arrival and illness at Beyrout, as given in the last chapter. We have now to add the melancholy circumstances attending his death, as they were furnished to his bereaved family by the letters from Alexandria and Malta, received long after the fearful intelligence reached them in December, 1840. Sudden and heart-breaking as was the calamity in itself, the blow was rendered still more intensely painful by the utter want of information, for a long period, as to the circumstances under which he breathed his last. They knew that he had died, comparatively alone and friendless, upon a foreign shore. But they knew not by what sympathy, if any, his drooping spirits had been sustained, by what ministrations his death-bed had been attended, by what hands his dying eyes had been closed. For many weary months it seemed as if no answer was to be returned to the sad and earnest questioning of affection, or to the voice of sincere and inquiring sympathy which arose from the church. Vague rumors, sometimes inconsistent, and often wholly contradictory, reached the ears of the mourners, one after another, till the anxious heart grew sick with perplexity on a subject so