to, and who has served with me ever since.

A mistico, Galaxidhiote.

A bonee.

An armed row-boat.

Two of my prize launches, armed each with a 9-pounder.

A bratsiera.

Five monoxolies, or canoes, for the shallows.

XXXI.

_Karteria_, Dragomestre, Jan. 7th, 1828.

MY LORD,

I have the honour to acquaint you that General Church arrived before
Vasiladhi on the 2nd inst.; and I resigned to him that fort on the
third, requesting him to refund the expenses of taking it; these consist
of five dollars per man bounty, besides the provisions of the flotilla
employed in the blockade. The General has promised to repay this,
although not without expressing some surprise at the demand; yet the
guns he receives in the fort would pay the whole sum.

On the same day I received an official letter from General Church,
requesting me to inform him what co-operation he might expect from the
navy in a projected attack of his on Anatolico. According to the wish of
General Church, I agreed to send all the boats at my disposal that
night, to attempt to capture an island named Poros, commanding the
entrance into the Lake of Anatolico, where the Turks had a post, and we
heard he was filling up the passage, and about to place guns on another
island, which would render him entirely master of the entrance. I soon
discovered that what General Church calls the cooperation of the navy is
in reality the navy executing the service, and the army looking on at
its leisure, ready to take possession if success attended the arms of
the former. I had understood that I was to be supported by two
rocket-boats of General Church, and by the launch of the Psarian brig,
carrying a carronade to throw grenades; but these did not appear. A
dozen policaries arrived from General Church, and were embarked in the
expedition. At half-past three A.M. of the 4th inst. I arrived with five
boats out of nine (the rest having unaccountably kept behind) at a
narrow part of the passage of the lake, across which the Turks had built
a wall, and stationed a gunboat behind it. The Turkish boat was soon put
to flight; the sailors jumping into the water soon cleared away a
passage for the boats, and the five of our boats rowed upon Poros, the
Turks keeping up a brisk fire of musketry from that island, and of
cannon from Anatolico. We were now within pistol-shot of Poros, when I
found, to my surprise, a fort on it--which I had been ass