L98 IN TITE MOREA.

may read a lesson of piety. I most sincerely regret
the distressing end of this poor youth. He had
escaped from the thieves of Italy and from the in-
hospitable climate of Sierra Leone. He had been
with me blocked up eight days by pirates at Mont
Athos. Poor fellow! he was then very anxious to
hide my money, that we might have something,
he said, to return home with.”

This painful event so much affected the spirits
of Dr Sibthorp, that he was for some days after
incapable of any exertion, even his journal being
suspended. ‘The two friends afterwards wintered
at Zante, where our botanist was fortunate enough
to procure, from an apothecary resident there, an
ample and rich herbarium of the plants of the
island, with their modern Greek names. The sea-
son was sufficiently favourable, in the middle of
February 1795, to allow the travellers to proceed
to the Morea, of which they made the complete
circuit in rather more than two months. Here
‘‘the violet and primrose welcomed them in the
plains of Arcadia; and the Narcissus tazzetta, which
Dr Sibthorp was disposed to think the true poetic
Narcissus, decorated in profusion the banks of the
Alpheus. The barbarian horde, under whose escort
they were obliged to travel, showed sufficient taste
to gather nosegays of these sweet flowers. The
oaks of the Arcadian mountains presented them