when I hastened back to my prison, and lay down on the bed to recover from the effects of my stone couch, I experienced such an acute pain in my back and hips that I was unable to rise.  It happened to be a Sunday morning, a day on which my kind Pauline did not come to the house, as there was no school to keep; and so I lay for twenty-four hours in the greatest pain, without help, unable even to obtain a drop of water.  I was totally unable to drag myself to the door, or to the place where the water-jug stood.  The next day, I am thankful to say, I felt somewhat better; my Pauline also came, and prepared me some mutton-broth.  By the fourth day I was once more up, and had almost recovered from the attack.

Journey from Beyrout to Cairo and Alexandria.

It was not until the 28th of July that a Greek brig set sail for Alexandria.  At ten o’clock in the evening I betook myself on board, and the next morning at two we weighed anchor.  Never have I bid adieu to any place with so much joy as I felt on leaving the town of Beyrout; my only regret was the parting from my kind Pauline.  I had met many good people during my journey, but she was certainly one of the best.

Unhappily, my cruel fate was not yet weary of pursuing me; and in my experience I fully realised the old proverb of, “out of the frying-pan into the fire.”  On this vessel, and during the time we had to keep quarantine in Alexandria, I was almost worse off than during my stay in Beyrout.  It is necessary, in dealing with the captain of a vessel of this description, to have a written contract for every thing—­stating, for instance, where he is to land, how long he may stay at each place, etc.  I mentioned this fact at the consulate, and begged the gentlemen to do what was necessary; but they assured me the captain was known to be a man of honour, and that the precaution I wished to take would be quite superfluous.  Upon this assumption, I placed myself fearlessly in the hands of the man; but scarcely had we lost sight of land, when he frankly declared that there were not sufficient provisions and water on board to allow of our proceeding to Alexandria, but that he must make for the harbour of Limasol in Cyprus.  I was exceedingly angry at this barefaced fraud, and at the loss of time it would occasion me, and offered all the opposition I could.  But nothing would avail me; I had no written contract, and the rest of the company offered no active resistance—­so to Cyprus we went.

A voyage in an ordinary sailing-vessel, which is not a packet-boat, is as wearisome a thing as can be well conceived.  The lower portion of the ship is generally so crammed with merchandise, that the deck alone remains for the passengers.  This was the case on the present occasion.  I was obliged to remain continually on deck:  during the daytime, when I had only my umbrella to shield me from the piercing