Journal of a Tour in the Levant, Volumen1John Murray, 1820 - 480 páginas |
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... returning at night to the frigate to sleep . Indeed every article of luxury in the place is almost unattainably dear . The only cause I can imagine for a favourable description of this " military hot - house " is , that it being ...
... returning at night to the frigate to sleep . Indeed every article of luxury in the place is almost unattainably dear . The only cause I can imagine for a favourable description of this " military hot - house " is , that it being ...
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... returned to the Aga's house in Bounarbashi , where we dined off Turkish dishes , and passed the night , -would I could say- slept ; but that was rendered totally impossible by the activity of the living enemies with which the tra ...
... returned to the Aga's house in Bounarbashi , where we dined off Turkish dishes , and passed the night , -would I could say- slept ; but that was rendered totally impossible by the activity of the living enemies with which the tra ...
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... returned in the evening . On our way back , we lost the road , and , had not a bright moon risen , should have been in a very uncomfortable situation , as we were for more than an hour wandering in the dark over this wild country ...
... returned in the evening . On our way back , we lost the road , and , had not a bright moon risen , should have been in a very uncomfortable situation , as we were for more than an hour wandering in the dark over this wild country ...
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... of the Dardanelles before it was detected ; but boats were sent after it to give notice of the prohibition , and thereupon it immediately returned . but who derived greater rank in the eyes of his 42 ARRIVAL AT ABYDOS .
... of the Dardanelles before it was detected ; but boats were sent after it to give notice of the prohibition , and thereupon it immediately returned . but who derived greater rank in the eyes of his 42 ARRIVAL AT ABYDOS .
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... remaining twenty mi- This simultaneous entrance is contrived in order to save the kaimakam from the indignity of rising to receive a Christian . nutes in the presence of the kaimakam , we returned 52 AUDIENCE OF THE KAIMAKAM .
... remaining twenty mi- This simultaneous entrance is contrived in order to save the kaimakam from the indignity of rising to receive a Christian . nutes in the presence of the kaimakam , we returned 52 AUDIENCE OF THE KAIMAKAM .
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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.