The apartments of the keepers are quite separate from ours.
The arrangements of the whole establishment are so good and comfortable, that we almost forget that we are prisoners.

What a contrast to the quarantine-house at Alexandria! If a traveller receives a visitor, he is not separated from his guest by ditches and bars, but stands only two steps from him in the courtyard.

The windows here are not grated; and though our clothes were hung on horses to air, neither we nor our effects were smoked out.

If it had not been for the delay it caused, I should really have spent the eighteen days of my detention here very pleasantly.
But I wished to ascend Mount Etna, and was a fixture here until the 2d of October.
October 1st.
The quarantine doctor examined us in a very superficial manner, and pronounced that we should be free to-morrow.

Upon this a boisterous hilarity prevailed.