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- The Grand Signore has ordered several mosques to be built at Naivali + offered 60 Olive trees to every Turk who will go + settle there.
     The Pasha of Smyrna has just made a demand on the Greek community for 30,000 piastres, the Armenian 12,000 + the Jewish 10,000.
     About 20 large boats have today set sail from this port with troops to join the expedition against Samos. An Algerime armed Schooner goes with them.
----- Today I have spent about four hours in teaching the children- have translated into Italian 2 pages of Mr. Dwights questions concerning Armenia – finished the Memoirs of De Ritz + read one book of Pope’s Odyssey.