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

VICTORY OF MIAOULIS OFF CRETE 167
The next day at dawn, Ibrahim, seeing the necessity
for once more postponing his enterprise, collected the
remnants of his convoy under the shelter of Scarpanto,
and two days later cast anchor in the deep Bay of Marmorice,
on the west coast of Ehodes.
The Greeks now thought that, the season being far
advanced, Ibrahim would give up, for the present, all
idea of reaching Crete. The pay of the Hydriot seamen
was a month or two in arrear, and they were eager
to return home and enjoy some of the fruits of their
victory.
Miaoulis, inspired by a clearer perception of
the threatened danger to Hellas, and by a purer patriotism,
was anxious not to lose sight of the Egyptian fleet
even now; and he besought his mutinous seamen, by
their love of country, by their faith, by the shades of
their ancestors,
and by their good name among posterity,
not to abandon their task. His prayers and
entreaties fell on deaf ears. The Hydriot seamen
wanted neither glory nor the blessings of posterity,
but their arrears of pay; they were not slaves or Turks
to work for nothing. The Egyptians had been swept
from the sea ;
let them now have their money, or they
would return to their islands, orders or no orders.
Miaoulis was obliged to yield; and the Greek fleet
sailed for Nauplia, leaving the sea unguarded. 1
i Cf. Lemaitre, 169.