THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO Volume I

On the 24th of February 1815 the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Gardesignalled the three-master the Pharaon from Smyrna Trieste and Naples.As usual a pilot put off immediately and rounding the Chateau d'If goton board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island.Immediately and according to custom the ramparts of Fort Saint-Jeanwere covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a shipto come into port especially when this ship like the Pharaon has beenbuilt rigged and laden at the old Phocee docks and belongs to an ownerof the city.The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait which some volcanicshock has made between the Calasareigne.....