JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE UP THE MEDITERRANEAN; PRINCIPALLY AMONG THE ISLANDS OF THE ARCHIPELAGO, AND IN ASIA MINOR: INCLUDING MANY INTERESTING PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO The Greek Revolution, ESPECIALLY A JOURNEY THROUGH MAINA TO THE CAMP OF IBRAHIM PACHA, TOGETHER WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE ANTIQUITIES, OPINIONS, AND USAGES OF GREECE, AS THEY NOW EXIST. TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN ESSAY ON THE FANARIOTES, translated from the French of MARK PHILIP ZALLONY, A GREEK. BY THE REV. CHARLES SWAN, LATE OF CATHARINE HALL, CAMBRIDGE; CHAPLAIN TO H. M. S. CAMBRIAN ; PRINTED FOR C. AND J. RIVINGTON, WATERLOO-PLACE, AND 148, strand. 1826. ADVERTISEMENT. MESSRS. RIVINGTON respectfully inform the public, that the Work now submitted to their inspection, is printed from the Manuscripts transmitted to them by the author for that purpose. They trust, that on examination, it will be found to contain a variety of entertaining matter respecting the Greeks, as well as much information which must be peculiarly interesting at the present period. The indulgence of the reader is requested for any trifling inaccuracies; as on account of the author's absence from the country, it was not possible for him to superintend the progress of his work through the press. WATERLOO-PLACE, A 2 CONTENTS. LEAVE England, 1.-Amusement on board, 2.-Cadiz-Spanish pilot, 3, 4.-Cathedral, 5.-Convent of the Augustines, 6.- Religious ceremonies, 7.-Images, 8.-Spanish waiter, 9.- Spanish houses, 10.-Spanish women, 11, 12.-Early mar- riages, 13.-Spanish play, 14.-Excursion to Xeres, 15.— Reflections on the Revolution, 16-18.-Excursion to Xeres, Island of Galeta, 27.-Malta-Islands of Galeta, Gozo, and 33.-Scylla and Charybdis, 34.-Bay of Naples, 35.- Naples Musicians, 36.-Disagreeable quarantine, 37.-The Villa Reale, 38.-The streets of Naples, 39.-The Villa Reale, 40, 41. Lazzaroni, 42. Pompeii, 43-55.— Naples Bourbonic museum, 60, 61.-Mode of unrolling the |