Scott is his standard for novels. I am very happy to
find good taste by no means confined to gentlemen, H- having no
pretensions to that title. He is a man after my own heart.
'Then I came down to the cabin and heard young A-'s schemes for the
future. His highest picture is a commission in the Prince of
Vizianagram's irregular horse. His eldest brother is tutor to his
Highness's children, and grand vizier, and magistrate, and on his
Highness's household staff, and seems to be one of those Scotch
adventurers one meets with and hears of in queer berths - raising
cavalry, building palaces, and using some petty Eastern king's long
purse with their long Scotch heads.
'Off Bona; June 4.
'I read your letter carefully, leaning back in a Maltese boat to
present the smallest surface of my body to a grilling sun, and
sailing from the ELBA to Cape Hamrah about three miles distant.
How we fried and sighed! At last, we reached land under Fort
Genova, and I was carried ashore pick-a-back, and plucked the first
flower I saw for Annie. It was a strange scene, far more novel
than I had imagined: the high, steep banks covered with rich,
spicy vegetation of which I hardly knew one plant.
Pages:
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150