[cross-reference: return to Footnote 2 of Letter 137]
[131 — To his Mother]
Prevesa, November 12, 1809.
My Dear Mother, — I have now been some time in Turkey: this place is on the coast, but I have traversed the interior of the province of Albania on a visit to the Pacha. I left Malta in the
Spider,
a brig of war, on the 21st of September, and arrived in eight days at Prevesa. I thence have been about 150 miles, as far as Tepaleen, his Highness's country palace, where I stayed three days.