Meanwhile we waited for the arrival of the American man-of-war which was to put the machinery of relief to the non-combatants in operation.

She never came, and in reply to a telegram to Commodore Goldsborough, who was at Nice, I received the information that he knew nothing of any orders for Crete.

Intrigues had supervened at Constantinople, chief mover in which was the dragoman of our legation, a Philo-Turkish Levantine, and the persistent assailant in various American journals of Mr.Morris and myself.

As the result of these intrigues the order to the admiral was recalled.

In March a corvette, the Canandaigua, came for a short stay, but the manner of the officers towards me, and the observations of most of the officers on what they considered a sort of "slave trade," i.e.the carrying of women and children, made me very glad to see her sail again.