Journey in the Caucasus, Persia, and Turkey in Asia V2 (1875) (Hardcover)

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: manded the modest sum of 100 tumans (over 80.) for his face, considering it to be worth at least that to him.1 And thus in the course of some days we purchased a collection of good and bad wares, taking the precaution, however, not to burden our baggage therewith. The whole cargo was forwarded via Tiflis to Europe, where it arrived safely some five months later. Altogether time passed most agreeably. During the day we walked about the city and in the bazaar, the scene of ever varying pictures and new impressions, and the evening was spent at the houses of the hospitable European society, especially at the residence of the English Consul-General, once a much-talked-of hero of the Crimean War, who considered his present post a very civilised one after years of service at the Feejee Islands.2 The English have the talent of always making themselves at home in the East, and this house was no exception to the rule; it even possessed a billiard-table, which had come all the way from England via Trebizonde, and which had been conveyed from that port to Tabreez on the backs of camels. But in the long run no home in foreign lands, however comfortable it may be, will satisfy the European, who pines for the mother country, with its manifold restraints, in spite of the freedom which Oriental life 1 Meschhedi Sadyk seems to have come down in his p tensions, for, shortly after writing the above lines, I received through a friend in Tabreez a very successful photograph of the famous dellal. The accompanying woodcut will serve to perpetuate his memory. 2 Captain Henry Michael Jooes, V.C., has recently been transferred to the post of Consul-General in Norway.?C. H. MESCHHEU1 SADYK. To face page G'2, vol. iV. CH. T. Tabreez. 63 affords, and which is very enjoyable to the.new ar...