Journal of a Tour in the Levant, Volumen1John Murray, 1820 - 480 páginas |
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... boat waiting for us , in which we went immediately on board the frigate . During our passage there , I was surprised at the number of meteors , called falling stars , which I observed in the clear sky ; we were only half an hour rowing ...
... boat waiting for us , in which we went immediately on board the frigate . During our passage there , I was surprised at the number of meteors , called falling stars , which I observed in the clear sky ; we were only half an hour rowing ...
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... boats . These were long vessels manned by eight or ten Greeks , who rowed us with no interval of rest , against the rapid current ( which runs at the rate of four miles an hour ) to the Asiatic town of the Dardanelles , ( to which ...
... boats . These were long vessels manned by eight or ten Greeks , who rowed us with no interval of rest , against the rapid current ( which runs at the rate of four miles an hour ) to the Asiatic town of the Dardanelles , ( to which ...
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... boats , the heat being too oppressive to admit of rowing in the day : the boat of the Mehmendah led the way : at some little distance behind him was the interpreter , whose If Herodotus be correct ' in assigning seven stadia ...
... boats , the heat being too oppressive to admit of rowing in the day : the boat of the Mehmendah led the way : at some little distance behind him was the interpreter , whose If Herodotus be correct ' in assigning seven stadia ...
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William Turner. boat was followed by that of the ambassador , of the gentlemen of the embassy , and of the servants . At ten next morning , we landed at Gallipoli , where , the Mehmendah having preceded us , we found horses waiting for ...
William Turner. boat was followed by that of the ambassador , of the gentlemen of the embassy , and of the servants . At ten next morning , we landed at Gallipoli , where , the Mehmendah having preceded us , we found horses waiting for ...
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... boats at seven , and saw large unconnected masses of ruins as we passed by the coast , north of the town , where high perpen- dicular rocks overhung the sea . The sea running too high to admit of rowing conveniently , we put into ...
... boats at seven , and saw large unconnected masses of ruins as we passed by the coast , north of the town , where high perpen- dicular rocks overhung the sea . The sea running too high to admit of rowing conveniently , we put into ...
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Página 81 - Turks, have no other shelter than they can find under gateways and benches in the streets, whence at intervals they send forth such repeated bowlings, that it requires practice to be able to sleep in spite of their noise. — This silence is occasionally and frequently disturbed by a fire, which is announced by the patrole striking on the pavement with their iron-shod staves, and calling loudly Yangenvar,
Página 78 - ... pace. The only sounds he hears by day, are the cries of bread, fruits, sweetmeats, or sherbet, carried in a large wooden tray on the head of an itinerant vender, and at intervals, the barking of dogs disturbed by the foot of the passenger, — lazy, ugly curs, of a...
Página 176 - ... government.", to whom, indeed, the selling of impunity or of pardon was a common source of emolument. A Zantiotc nobleman not long ago, on his deathbed, pistolled his own brother; another administered a slow poison to the only son of a rival, as the most bitter vengeance he could take on the father. The poor boy survived, but is to this day a wretched object from its effect. In short it would be equally impossible and needless to enumerate their crimes. There are only two classes, the very rich...
Página 41 - ... a little northerly of the castles) against such a current; and higher up or lower down, the strait widens so considerably, that he would save little labour by changing his place of starting. I therefore treat the tale of Leander's swimming across both ways, as one of those fables, to which the Greeks were so ready to give the name of history.
Página 82 - He must not even smoke or take snuff'. This injunction falls easy on the rich, who pass nearly all the day in bed or in idleness, and thus ward off the assaults of hunger and thirst. Yet even these look very wretched, sitting on their divan or at their doors without their favourite pipe in their mouths, and having no other occupation than turning with their fingers a chaplet of beads, which almost every inhabitant of the country, in easy circumstances, carries in his hand to amuse himself, by passing...
Página 82 - I have seen the boatmen," says Mr. Turner, "lean on their oars almost fainting ; but I never saw, never met with any one who professed to have seen, an instance in which they yielded to the temptation of violating the fast.
Página 77 - G carriages rattling through the streets, for there are* no wheeled vehicles in the city, except a very few painted carts — called arabahs — drawn by buffaloes, in which women occasionally take the air in the suburbs, and which go only a foot's pace. The only sounds he hears by day, are the cries of bread, fruits, sweetmeats, or sherbet, carried in a large wooden tray on the head of an itinerant vender, and at intervals the barking of dogs disturbed by the foot of the passenger.
Página 77 - Amid the novelties that strike the European on his arrival, nothing surprises him more than the silence that pervades so large a capital. He hears no noise of carts or...
Página 81 - The contrast between Constantinople and a European city is still more strongly marked at night. By ten o'clock every human voice is hushed...
Página 81 - ... on which the firemen assemble, and all the inhabitants in the neighborhood arc immediately on the alert. If it be not quickly subdued, all the ministers of state are obliged to attend ; and if it threaten extensive ravages, the sultan himself must appear to encourage the efforts of the firemen.