Previous  to  our  departure,  we  had.  a  satisfactory  meeting
in  the  house  of  David  Offley,  whose  wife  is  a  Greek ;  many
of  the  Greeks  and  persons  who  inhabit  the  quarter  of  the
Franks  attended.  By  the  British  Consul  from  Adrianople,
who  came  with  us  from  Constantinople,  we  had  a  good  op-
portunity of  sending  to  that  place,  and  parts  adjacent,  a
selection  of  books  treating  on  our  religious  principles,  as
wc  heard  that  there  are  pious  persons  there  who  inquire  into
the  Christian  testimonies  of  our  Society.  Their  desire  to
know  more  of  them  appears  to  have  arisen  from  the  circum-
stance, that  a  Greek  Bishop,  at  Janina,  by  some  means  came
into  possession,  a  few  years  ago,  of  a  copy  of  Barclay's
Apology,  in  Latin,  from  Malta.  The  reading  of  it  pleased
him  so  much,  that  he  made  a  translation  of  it  into  Greek,
and  took  the  pains  to  have  two  or  more  copies  transcribed.
One  of  these  was  sent  to  Tiflis,  where  again  the  bishops
had  some  portions  translated  into  Arabic,  particularly  those
on  Divine  worship  and  the  ministry.  Some  of  these  were
circulated  both  in  Egypt  and  Armenia.
By  the  advice  of  our  friends  here  we  have  procured  a
person  to  act  as  interpreter  for  us,  and  to  provide  for  us  in
our  future  journeyings ;  without  such  an  attendant,  they  say
we  could  not  get  along;  for  here,  as  in  Russia  and  particu-
larly among  the  Tartars,  we  have  to  buy  our  food  and  cook
it  ourselves.     Sobicsky,  our  Pole,  had  been  very  serviceable


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to  us  ill  these  respects.  The  person  we  have  engaged  here
is  well  recommended ;  he  is  a  Greek,  and  speaks  the  Turkish,
Italian,  and  French  languages.
