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it had been possible I would certainly have staid. He staid with me on the steamer until the plank was drawn up & he could hardly leap across the space between. He seemed sad & to feel a lack of sympathy on the part of the friends at home-even the Missionary Board of our ch. which has, he says, "lost confidence in the Bulgarian Mission"-as Dr. Long had intimated. He was inconsolable on account of Dr. Bannister's passing him by unvisited & heart-sick because of Bp. Kingsley's death-"for all our hope was in him," said he almost with tears. He hurriedly told me some of his experiences & that to learn the language was very difficult as he had no helps-no books-nothing but the practise of the ear. He told me that in his desperation he, who in America had never supposed himself capable of sounding a note, had organized a singing school-which meets four times weekly & is the greatest attraction he could have devised. I don't believe that in fifteen minutes a stranger ever told me so much or so awakened my interest & sympathy. The brief & sudden interview gave me "long, long thoughts"-of the "shady side"-the one we read of [..] [corner of page missing] believe in at home.-At table d'hote an English man passed around a ghastly carte de visite-the seven heads of the brigands executed at Athens one week ago! Verily this is a prompt age that we live in! This [?] ends my Record of the East-comprised in 5 little spiche [?]-track books like this.

3 months & 4 days in the Orient.

[written in left margin:] Stood out & waved kerchiefs at Mr. Wanless as far as we could see & so wended on along the "Beautiful Danube."

[Notes on inside back cover:]

cypress-wood [?]-chess.

Ring-bottles

Rahat locum=mouthful of Happiness.

Letter press & copying ink-Date with an English walnut baked inside it-

Yusef, J. Ross Browne's book.

Grand Hotel or Arch Duke Charles, Vienna (Lippincotes)

Pilaff=favorite dish of the Turks.

Memorandum: The Corporal for Dr. Long's children. P.O. ("Prussian Mail Direct-Rev. Dr. S. S. Long.)