DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.4719#0242
SMYBNA.
221
mule, is led:
••inelosefc
^ with rei
•holes
fh used-, a
■
eoBtmtt(E
P*King, each eoi^
in uponanasiki
■mectedby
the weather is k
r right genenljli
le morning. foi
1 left t.
stopping oas
iicaUd the please-
and the chM
i« welcome:
• .■....:■.:: ;"-'
Lthehbentedtai
davVc
^whiA<*
fcdonitB^
animals to the children; for I have often seen three or four
of them, when young, lying with their heads inside a tent in
the midst of the sleeping children, while their long bodies
remained outside.
From Cassaba a ride of forty-eight miles through a beau-
tifully varied and picturesque country brought us again to
Smyrna, called by the Turks Ismeer, on the evening of Satur-
day, the 12th of May.
Smybna, Sunday morning, May IStli.—I quite enjoy to be
again sitting on a chair, with a table before me, and shall
spend this day of rest in thinking over the interest and plea-
sure of the past three months. My first feeling on making
the retrospect cannot but be gratitude that I have escaped
even the slightest accident, on a journey of three thousand
miles, through a country little travelled, and in which there
are neither carriages nor roads.
How soon is a new habit acquired! I have just been ob-
serving a party of Europeans on their way to church; the
men tightly swathed in their clothes, the ladies with their
stiffened silk, bound down in plaits, huge bonnets, artificial
flowers placed erect, and discordant colours, seemed to me
deformities compared with the natural, easy, and graceful
costume to which three months' intimacy has attached me.
How different are now my feelings towards the Turks,
from those uncharitable prejudices with which I looked upon
them on my first arrival at this place! To their manners,
habits, and character, equally as to their costume, I am be-
come not only reconciled, but sincerely attached; for I have
found truth, honesty, and kindness, the most estimable and
amiable qualities, in a people among whom I so little looked
for them.
The pervading character of this people is their entire devo-
221
mule, is led:
••inelosefc
^ with rei
•holes
fh used-, a
■
eoBtmtt(E
P*King, each eoi^
in uponanasiki
■mectedby
the weather is k
r right genenljli
le morning. foi
1 left t.
stopping oas
iicaUd the please-
and the chM
i« welcome:
• .■....:■.:: ;"-'
Lthehbentedtai
davVc
^whiA<*
fcdonitB^
animals to the children; for I have often seen three or four
of them, when young, lying with their heads inside a tent in
the midst of the sleeping children, while their long bodies
remained outside.
From Cassaba a ride of forty-eight miles through a beau-
tifully varied and picturesque country brought us again to
Smyrna, called by the Turks Ismeer, on the evening of Satur-
day, the 12th of May.
Smybna, Sunday morning, May IStli.—I quite enjoy to be
again sitting on a chair, with a table before me, and shall
spend this day of rest in thinking over the interest and plea-
sure of the past three months. My first feeling on making
the retrospect cannot but be gratitude that I have escaped
even the slightest accident, on a journey of three thousand
miles, through a country little travelled, and in which there
are neither carriages nor roads.
How soon is a new habit acquired! I have just been ob-
serving a party of Europeans on their way to church; the
men tightly swathed in their clothes, the ladies with their
stiffened silk, bound down in plaits, huge bonnets, artificial
flowers placed erect, and discordant colours, seemed to me
deformities compared with the natural, easy, and graceful
costume to which three months' intimacy has attached me.
How different are now my feelings towards the Turks,
from those uncharitable prejudices with which I looked upon
them on my first arrival at this place! To their manners,
habits, and character, equally as to their costume, I am be-
come not only reconciled, but sincerely attached; for I have
found truth, honesty, and kindness, the most estimable and
amiable qualities, in a people among whom I so little looked
for them.
The pervading character of this people is their entire devo-