Travels in Asia Minor, and Greece

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009 - 226 σελίδες
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of the Virgin Mary, which was found in the rubbish of a church there. On the European side, opposite to the Rhodius, was Cynosseraa, The Barrow of Hecuba, which is still very conspicuous, and within or close by the castle. We returned, when we had finished our survey, to our lodgings, where we supped cross-legged, about sun-set. Soon after, when it was dark, three coverlets, richly embroidered, were taken from a press in the room, which we occupied, and delivered one to each of us; the carpet or sopha and a cushion serving, with this addition, instead of a bed. A lamp was left burning on a shelf, and the consul retired to his family, which lay, in the same manner, in an adjoining apartment. We pulled off our coats and shoes, and expected to be much refreshed by sleeping on shore. We had not been apprised of a nightly plague, that of bugs, which haunts the place, or perhaps rather the houses of the Jews. Two of us could not obtain rest for a moment, but waited the approach of dawn, with a degree of impatience, equalled only by our bodily sufferings, which cannot be described. CHAP. V. We pass dozen the Hellespont?Land in the Chersonese of Thrace ?The town anciently EleAs?Civility of the governor?The barrow, fyc. of Protesilaus. We had agreed in the evening to visit some neighbouring places on the continent, with the principal islands near the mouth of the Hellespont. Early in the morning the consul asked for money to purchase provisions, which, with other necessaries, were put into a scheick or wherry. He embarkedwith us, between the hours of eight and nine by our watches. We had six Turks, who rowed; a janizary, and a Jew servant. The two.latter, with the consul, sate cross-legged before us, on a small carpet; as the rais or master of the boat did behind, steering wit...

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