The first relief was the flying visit of Admiral Lord Clarence Paget, in the _Psyche_ despatch-boat, direct from Constantinople _en route_ for Malta, to inform us that the _Arethusa_ had been ordered to Crete. This was a reprieve of a few days, and was followed by complete freedom from anxiety on the arrival of the _Arethusa_, the sound of whose saluting guns at Suda Bay (the port of Canéa for large ships) produced an emotion which was like waking from a long nightmare. We all went to Suda to pay our official and personal visits, which the officers returned, and bluejackets swarming in the town, and racing over the plain of Canéa like mad fox-hunters, hilarious, indifferent to yataghan or bullet, as if they were anything but Giaours, assured both Turk and Christian that at least the Europeans must be respected. We took down our barricades, and again moved about freely; yet the feeling was so strong amongst the Mussulmans that the English were on their side that the native Christians experienced no benefit from the cause which brought us comparative relief. We attended service the Sunday subsequent to the arrival of the _Arethusa_ on board, and, lunching with Captain McDonald, were called from the table to see the stars and stripes rounding the point and entering the bay. They floated from the gaff of the corvette _Ticonderoga_, whose commandant, being at Trieste, came for old friendship's sake to look after us on getting the first news of the insurrection. Her stay for a few days was a demonstration of force which, so far as I was concerned, left a most healthy impression as to my being supported by the United States Government, the more that the _Ticonderoga_ sailed from Suda direct for Constantinople (according to her commander's original intention), a course which produced a general impression in Crete that she had gone to support my view on the question. Nothing could exceed in friendliness and cordiality the manner in which the commander, Commodore Steedman, and his officers supported me in my difficult position, and identified the national dignity with the respect due to the humblest of its representatives. The _Arethusa_, a few days after her arrival, was succeeded by H. B. M.'s gunboat _Wizard_, which during several subsequent months was our only and sufficient protector. Her humane and gallant young commander, Murray, will ever be remembered with gratitude and honor by every European resident in Crete during the insurrection. He placed us all under obligations of many kinds which a passing notice can only faintly recognize.