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 202 CHRISTIAN GREECE AND LIVING GREEK. Of the 60,000,000 francs loaned less than one- third found its way into the Greek treasury. The principal of 60,000,000, however, has been paid in the stipulated half-yearly instalments, the last of these in the year 1871. The history of this first loan made to Greece with all its details has been written in a voluminous work by Professor Herman von Sicherer, entitled " Das bayerisch- griechische Anlehen aus den Jahren 1835, 1836, 1837. Ein Rechtsgutachten." Miinchen, 1880. The king was sent with money, with papers representing Greece's debt of 60,000,000 francs, a debt contracted in the name of the country which was virtually a stranger to the whole transaction, and which was bound down by this load in the shape of principal and interest before it was ever ascertained j*^at its revenues were likely to be. With the kin^^me a numerous body of Ba- rian tropf^ infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engine^fs, nine thousand in all, flushed with military enthusiasm. The glittering arms of these fine troops and the golden prospects of the high pay secured by the funds which the allied powers had placed at the disposal of the gov- ernment were in direct contrast with the sight of bands of irregular and lawless Greek soldiers, a