THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE 1821 TO 1833 BY W.ALISON PHILLIPS 1897

EXPEDITIONS OF MUSTAI AND YUSSUF PASHAS 125
while, to prepare and cover this movement, Yussuf
Pasha marched by way of Boeotia and Attica upon
Salona and Lepanto, with a view to
crossing thence
to Patras. The moment was very favourable, both
and, at sea,
by sea and land. In the Morea the strife of parties
was raging with full violence ;
the islanders
were likewise turning their arms against each other.
Hydriots and Spezziots were at daggers drawn; and
Samos, under Lycourgos of sinister memory in connection
with Chios was defending itself, by force ol
arms, against the unjust aggressions of the Psariots.
The Greek fleet had become a mere flotilla of pirate
hulls, without organisation or discipline, and as ready
to prey upon friend as foe; and not even Miaoulis
could reduce it to order.
Khosrew Pasha, however, who commanded the
Ottoman fleet which, at the end of May, sailed out of
the Dardanelles, was not the man to take full advantage
of the situation. He was in any case more suited
to the council chamber than the quarter-deck, and,
timid by nature, the fate of his predecessor, Kara Ali,
had filled him with a perfect horror of the Greek fireships.
1
His present cruise was not marked by any considerable
results. He touched at Mitylene and Chios,
embarked some troops at Tchesme, and sailed for
i Finlay,
ii. 14.