This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...houses, where there was a Greek cafe, (properly inscribed Kapetov, that there might be no mistake about it, ) and waited until the storm was over. The room was crowded with Greeks, drinking, smoking, and playing cards; and, in an adjoining room, as many more were absorbed in a game of billiards, played with small ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...houses, where there was a Greek cafe, (properly inscribed Kapetov, that there might be no mistake about it, ) and waited until the storm was over. The room was crowded with Greeks, drinking, smoking, and playing cards; and, in an adjoining room, as many more were absorbed in a game of billiards, played with small ninepins on the cloth. The master had not much to offer beyond some muddy coffee, and execrably bad brandy; but he pointed with great pride to a shelf of English pickles, and bottled beer, which, he appeared to have some vague notion, were always taken together. There was also a picture of Queen Victoria, which had been presented gratis, with some newspaper--hung up, I suppose, in compliment to the Anglo-Ionian subjects who used the house. The noise and confusion were bewildering, and the intentions of Russia the sole subject of conversation. In about half an hour the weather held up, and when we embarked again the scene was most lovely. The greater part of the noble Turkish fleet was lying at anchor in the middle of the stream. Many ships were sailing down from the Euxine ports, on the sterns of some of which it was pleasant to read the Potty of Sunderland, or the Two Sisters of London: all the caiques had come out of their nooks and corners again, and the roofs of the houses, wet with rain, glistened in the sunlight as though they had been silver. I can conceive nothing so exciting as the approach to Constantinople must be, by the Bosphorus, to those travellers who have come down the Danube. The banks display every variety of water scenery. Now the handsome villas and palaces remind one of the edges of an Italian lake, Como or Orta, for instance; the next turn of the stream brings you, to rocky eminences, with such ruins on them as you might see o..
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