30 October.—Mr.

Morris took me to the hotel where our rooms

had been ordered by telegraph, he being the one who could best be
spared, since he does not speak any foreign language. The forces
were distributed much as they had been at Varna, except that Lord
Godalming went to the Vice-Consul, as his rank might serve as an
immediate guarantee of some sort to the official, we being in extreme
hurry. Jonathan and the two doctors went to the shipping agent to learn
particulars of the arrival of the Czarina Catherine.

Later.—Lord Godalming has returned. The Consul is away, and the

Vice-Consul sick; so the routine work has been attended to by a clerk.
He was very obliging, and offered to do anything in his power.