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Chap, xxxiv.]
ARAB PILGRIMS.
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served in a Turkish island, under the influence of Turkish
indifference, while it has everywhere disappeared in Europe,
before the sweeping hand of innovation, and the improve-
ment and alteration of domestic architecture.*
Thursday, January 26.—A Turkish corvette arrived this
morning with the new governor Chosrew Pacha: she en-
tered the harbour in which we were lying with all sails set,
and fired a salute with great precision, which was equally
well returned from the fort. Another arrival of this day
was of a very different description, viz. a brig full of dirty
Arab pilgrims on their way from Tunis to Alexandria. They
landed in the course of the day, bivouacked on a small piece
of ground near the harbour, and spent their time in cooking
their provisions, and cleansing themselves and their ragged
clothes from the vermin which had infested them on board.
I never saw a more squalid, loathsome set of savages.
Their scanty dress bespoke the extreme of poverty, and
wild fanaticism was depicted in their countenances. In the
evening we landed our effects, and took up our quarters for
the night in a small Franciscan or Capucin convent, sending
the vessel to Marmorice, on the opposite coast, for a week.
We had some difficulty in getting ashore in the dark, having
landed on the quarantine ground; but finding ourselves
locked in, we discovered our mistake before we were per-
ceived, and got safely off.
Friday, January 27.—Having made arrangements for a
short excursion into the interior of the island, and to the
site of the ancient Lindus, we started this morning at ten
a.m. Mules were the only animals we could procure for our
conveyance. After passing through the Greek quarter, we
ascended a low ridge of hills, consisting chiefly of a shelly
conglomerate, containing numerous fragments of recent
* Prince Piickler Muskau, in one of his last works,* contrasts the generosity of
the Turks after the capture of Rhodes in respecting the arms, insignia, and inscrip-
tions on the public buildings of the knights, with the vandalism of the French in
defacing the armorial bearings on the alberghi of the knights of Malta.
* Siid fctlicher Bllderaaal, vol. l. Dpi- Vergnuglingi
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ARAB PILGRIMS.
51
served in a Turkish island, under the influence of Turkish
indifference, while it has everywhere disappeared in Europe,
before the sweeping hand of innovation, and the improve-
ment and alteration of domestic architecture.*
Thursday, January 26.—A Turkish corvette arrived this
morning with the new governor Chosrew Pacha: she en-
tered the harbour in which we were lying with all sails set,
and fired a salute with great precision, which was equally
well returned from the fort. Another arrival of this day
was of a very different description, viz. a brig full of dirty
Arab pilgrims on their way from Tunis to Alexandria. They
landed in the course of the day, bivouacked on a small piece
of ground near the harbour, and spent their time in cooking
their provisions, and cleansing themselves and their ragged
clothes from the vermin which had infested them on board.
I never saw a more squalid, loathsome set of savages.
Their scanty dress bespoke the extreme of poverty, and
wild fanaticism was depicted in their countenances. In the
evening we landed our effects, and took up our quarters for
the night in a small Franciscan or Capucin convent, sending
the vessel to Marmorice, on the opposite coast, for a week.
We had some difficulty in getting ashore in the dark, having
landed on the quarantine ground; but finding ourselves
locked in, we discovered our mistake before we were per-
ceived, and got safely off.
Friday, January 27.—Having made arrangements for a
short excursion into the interior of the island, and to the
site of the ancient Lindus, we started this morning at ten
a.m. Mules were the only animals we could procure for our
conveyance. After passing through the Greek quarter, we
ascended a low ridge of hills, consisting chiefly of a shelly
conglomerate, containing numerous fragments of recent
* Prince Piickler Muskau, in one of his last works,* contrasts the generosity of
the Turks after the capture of Rhodes in respecting the arms, insignia, and inscrip-
tions on the public buildings of the knights, with the vandalism of the French in
defacing the armorial bearings on the alberghi of the knights of Malta.
* Siid fctlicher Bllderaaal, vol. l. Dpi- Vergnuglingi
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