What the losses were was never known, returns not being to the taste of the old irregular, or consoling to his Government; but when the army reached the Apokorona and reassembled, it was reported by Mustapha (official report, February 6, 1867) at 6,000 men, too large an estimate in the opinion of the officers of the men-of-war at Suda, who witnessed the defile as they debouched on the plain of Canéa, whence they had gone out for the Theriso campaign, in October, 17,850, with eight guns, by the official statement to Mr. Dickson (Cretan Blue Book, Mr. Dickson's despatch of October 15, 1866), besides several thousand irregular reinforcements. The commander of one of the Italian ships, who took the trouble to count some of the battalions, reported one of them to me at less than 300, and this an Egyptian battalion which had come 900 strong. It was evident to all in Canéa that Mustapha's administration was an utter failure. The spring had come; new bodies of volunteers had been thrown into the island, and the trips of the blockade runners continued without a single disaster. The Turkish forces, which, at the assumption of the command by the Commissioner, had been above 30,000, were now, by my estimate, less than 20,000. The official reports, as usual, chanted victory, but the under-officials at Canéa were not so reticent, and a profound gloom settled over the whole Mussulman population. The more energetic of the Turkish commanders openly attacked Mustapha's cautious policy, and demanded a more dashing campaign.