Buck Whaley's Memoirs Author:Thomas Whaley Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The Sea Voyage resumed—The Island of St. Peter—Sicily—Mount Olympus—A Storm— Smyrna—A Tendour—L'Avant Souper— The Custom-House—A Caravan—A Mosque... more »—A Turkish Bath —A Lead-foundry—Character of Pauolo, my Servant—A Turkish Burying - Ground — Journey to Constantinople — Magnesia — Its Governor—Preparations for a Battle. November the sixth, we re-embarked on board the London. Nothing remarkable occurred to us on the first days of our navigation ; nor shall I attempt to describe the various scenes and trifling occurrences which do not fail to attract the attention of the inexperienced navigator. It was not till the thirteenth that we discovered land, which proved to be the island of Sardinia. On the same morning I was very much entertained with the appearance of a vast number of pilot fish. This fish is known to live in perfect amity with the shark, whose caterer he is said to be, in the same manner as the jackal is the lion's. We endeavoured to catch some of them with lines ; but did not succeed. We tried to strike them with the harpoon, but being rather too small to be killed in this manner we only got two of them after labouring for three hours. We had them dressed for dinner and found them eat tolerably well. Having unfortunately stood too much to the northward, we perceived that most likely we should not be able to weather the island, which would be one hundred miles out of our course, and to my great mortification, our apprehensions were but too well founded. ST. PETER'S ISLAND. 63 November the th. We stood in for the south end of the island, close off St. Peter's, the shore of which is safe and bold, and the rocks very lofty, resembling much the northern parts of Ireland, off the point of Bengore and along the Giant's Causeway. In different pla...« less