CHAPTER XXI SmyrnaThe Sport of the DjeridJourney to EphesusThe dead City The desolate CountryThe Ruins and Obliteration of the TempleThe slight Impression of all on Byron The passage in the Pylades from Athens to Smyrna was performed without accident or adventure.

Let it be admitted that it is a calamity to the English, as to any other great historic people, to undergo a premature fusion with immigrants of alien blood; that its distinctive national characteristics should be in danger of obliteration by the predominating quality of foreign settlers.

Mr. Croker notices a curious obliteration in this letter.

" "Then you could have had no occasion for the printed chart, with the mark of obliteration on it, and did not come here on that authority after all.