This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter viii. november 1876--spbing 1877. Travels In Asia Minor. bibliography: 5. The Practical Instruction of Staff Officers, 1876. 6. A Ride to Khiva 1876 (Reviewed in Saturday Review 25th November 1876). Eleventh edition 1877. (Cassell.) 7. On Horseback through Asia Minor 1877. Seventh edition with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter viii. november 1876--spbing 1877. Travels In Asia Minor. bibliography: 5. The Practical Instruction of Staff Officers, 1876. 6. A Ride to Khiva 1876 (Reviewed in Saturday Review 25th November 1876). Eleventh edition 1877. (Cassell.) 7. On Horseback through Asia Minor 1877. Seventh edition with Memoir of Radford and a new preface dealing with the Eastern question 1878. (Sampson Low.) While Burnaby and Mr. Wright were thus busying themselves, all England was roused owing to the Bul34--Burnaby and garian massacres, and in newspaper and on Radford Bet platform the Turks were held up to execraout on their f... 'r Travels, tion. Burnaby insisted, however, that the Not. 1876. cry agamst them was something of an election dodge. He deplored, as did every other feeling man, the shocking butchery in Bulgaria; but he pointed out that the trouble was owing in part to reprisals made by the Turks on account of cruelty inflicted on their people by the Russians and other Christians, and in part to the barbarity of the Turkish mercenaries. He considered the genuine Turk one of the finest fellows in the world, and he denied that the Anatolian Christians were oppressed. He determined, however, to go to Asia Minor and examine the condition of affairs with his own eyes. This chapter is founded on Burnaby's Oh Horseback through Asia Minor and Burnaby's letters (lent to the Author by Mrs. Baillie). Burnaby, having first applied to the Turkish Ambassador, asking whether any special permission was required, received reply that an Englishman could travel where he liked in the Turkish Dominions; and he contrasted these words with the grudging acquiescence of the St. Petersburg authorities when he was about to visit Tartary. Having crossed to Calais, ...
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