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. 1910 Excerpt: ...Other officers came in, and all of them made a most excellent impression on me. I felt much safer among them than I had felt in Stamboul during the preceding week among the insolent ruffians whom the Sultan had bribed to murder their officers, and whose favourite amusement was to frighten women and children by ...
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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. 1910 Excerpt: ...Other officers came in, and all of them made a most excellent impression on me. I felt much safer among them than I had felt in Stamboul during the preceding week among the insolent ruffians whom the Sultan had bribed to murder their officers, and whose favourite amusement was to frighten women and children by discharging their rifles in the street. As there was no room for me in the camp, the commanding officer sent two soldiers with me to a "khan," or native hotel, on the railway line, and there I found accommodation in a room occupied by about forty men, all volunteers, some of them Greeks, some Turks, some Bulgarians. Despite my protests a captain gave up his camp-bed to me, and even insisted on covering me with his rug. Consequently I slept well, but I don't know how my benefactor managed, for the night was chilly, and every inch of sleeping accommodation in the " khan " and the surrounding houses had been taken up. Before retiring to rest I had a rough but plentiful supper with the Turkish officers. There were only two plates or dishes, and we had to eat with our hands. In one plate was a very tasty young lamb, in the other was "yaort" or curdled milk. The caravansary on which we were quartered was full of wine and arrack, but the owner would not give you a glass if you were to fill his palm with gold, for when the troops arrived he had been told, curtly, that if he Sold wine to the soldiers he would be shot. After dinner we sat outside in the dark smoking cigarettes and drinking excellent coffee, and while we were sitting, the fruitless deputation of Izzet Pasha, whose object was to stay the march of the avenging Macedonians, passed in a special train, returning to Constantinople from the Macedonian headquarters at Tchat...
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