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Monday following our entrance into Yassi was the first of the month Ilôl, or September; and the beginning of the Year of the World.

On the eighth of Ilôl, the Beg made the request to our Lord the Patriarch, and he said Mass for him in the Church of the Corta. On the Festival of the Cross, the Domina, in her turn, sent an invitation to his Holiness; and he said Mass for her, in her own church, within her own residence. Again, on the Sunday following the Feast of the Cross, the Domina, having repaired to the convent called the Convent of the Domina, sent a request to our Lord the Patriarch, and he again performed Mass for her. Great was the generosity, and profound and substantial were the attentions, shewn by the Beg to our master, in allotting him a daily pension of upwards of a dinar, with a daily allowance of twenty okkas of wine and fifty loaves of bread; a cart-load of grass and barley, for five-and-thirty horses; and a load of wood, with another of water, for the use of the Armenians; besides candles of several kinds, and other articles of domestic consumption. In the land of Moldavia we began to smell the air of our own country; and entered the bath, to which we had been strangers for Rh