Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &C (Volume 1); With the Capitan Pasha, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1833. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... an influence over them which no one since Scanderbeg had obtained, so that he would have had no difficulty in making them march under him to the Morea, or to any other place for plunder. They deserted him in his extremity, partly from a reluctance to oppose the sultan, but principally from the defection, owing to his avarice, of some of their chiefs, particularly Omer Bey, Ali's trusted follower, who opened the passes of Findus to the Ottoman force under Ismael Pasha. Supposing, however, that Mahmoud had calculated the extent of the insurrection, had known that it was independent of Ali, still it is not probable, considering his character, that he would have suffered the policy of accepting his offer to weigh against the desire of being revenged, now thatjie had the power, on a subject, who, for twelve years, had walked on the edge of the gulf of rebellion. He satiated his vengeance by cutting off every branch of so sturdy a tree, even to an innocent boy, twelve years old, Ali's youngest grandson. The Tartar, who bore the head to Constantinople, was surrounded by crowds, in the towns where he stopped, who could scarcely credit that it was the terrible Ali's; and the brave mountaineers wept, for they remembered the feats of his youth. Its exposition at the seraglio gate filled the Constantinopolitans with astonishment, and the sultan with joy. Short-sighted man That head was the head of the Hercules, who might have crushed the hydra, Revolt. Time in a few years would have laid it in the dust; what time will sear the full-grown necks of liberty? chapter ix. Beys of Albania--Ibrahim Pasha in the Morea--Revolt and slaughter of the Janizzaries--Peter the Great and the Strelitzes--Mahmoud and Amurath--The Nizam Dgeditt and the Janizzaries--Turkish prejudices--Erroneo...