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skc0nd visit to mustafa-pasha.
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very soon after Constantine had bestowed on them
rank and wealth and temporal power34.
From the levee of the Christian Archbishop I again
went to the palace of the Mohammedan Governor-
General. His answer to various requests, which I
made for permission to excavate on ancient sites, to
take sketches, and to draw plans, &c. &c. was uniformly a
ready assent: " Peke f11 He had just received informa-
tion of the loss, by fire, in the port of Alexandria, of
a new and beautiful frigate of 62 guns. The general,
Osman-bey, seemed greatly afflicted at the news: he
observed to me that he feared they were not yet rightly
disciplined, and said that, in the British navy, a lighted
candle would not have been left on a wooden table.
I mentioned the loss of the Kent East-Indiaman, which
proved that, even with English discipline, such an ac-
cident might occur, and was therefore a ground of
consolation to my Turkish friends.
I found the Pasha engaged this morning in the
study of the military art, with a European instructor,
a native of Corsica.
Mustafa-pasha has had ample experience in the
warfare of irregular troops during the long struggle of
the Cretans : but till lately was totally ignorant of the
regular art of war.
After visiting the Pasha, I went to Ratib-effendi, an
Egyptian Turk, the President of the Council of Megalo-
34 The authority of the Council did not suffice to stop the practice, which
the Archbishop of Gortyna still observes, and we find it again expressly pro-
hibited in the Theodosian code. I was once present at a similar exhibition,
which formed part of the entertainment given at a great festival by a Turk
of high rank. The motions of these females may be well described by a few
passages of ancient authors. Pollux, iv. 14. 'Avekyrj etS-ij 6pyt)<*e<*>v *v
Trj Trj<s iiatpvos Trepupopa. JuVENAL, VI. 63. SlDONIUS apollinaris,
ix. Ep. xiii. in a description of a feast:
Juvat et vago rotatu
Hare fracta membra ludo :
Simulare vel trementes
Pede, veste, voce Bacchas.
Additional authorities ate indicated in the Antichita di Ehcolano,
Tom. i. p. !I7.
skc0nd visit to mustafa-pasha.
[chap.
very soon after Constantine had bestowed on them
rank and wealth and temporal power34.
From the levee of the Christian Archbishop I again
went to the palace of the Mohammedan Governor-
General. His answer to various requests, which I
made for permission to excavate on ancient sites, to
take sketches, and to draw plans, &c. &c. was uniformly a
ready assent: " Peke f11 He had just received informa-
tion of the loss, by fire, in the port of Alexandria, of
a new and beautiful frigate of 62 guns. The general,
Osman-bey, seemed greatly afflicted at the news: he
observed to me that he feared they were not yet rightly
disciplined, and said that, in the British navy, a lighted
candle would not have been left on a wooden table.
I mentioned the loss of the Kent East-Indiaman, which
proved that, even with English discipline, such an ac-
cident might occur, and was therefore a ground of
consolation to my Turkish friends.
I found the Pasha engaged this morning in the
study of the military art, with a European instructor,
a native of Corsica.
Mustafa-pasha has had ample experience in the
warfare of irregular troops during the long struggle of
the Cretans : but till lately was totally ignorant of the
regular art of war.
After visiting the Pasha, I went to Ratib-effendi, an
Egyptian Turk, the President of the Council of Megalo-
34 The authority of the Council did not suffice to stop the practice, which
the Archbishop of Gortyna still observes, and we find it again expressly pro-
hibited in the Theodosian code. I was once present at a similar exhibition,
which formed part of the entertainment given at a great festival by a Turk
of high rank. The motions of these females may be well described by a few
passages of ancient authors. Pollux, iv. 14. 'Avekyrj etS-ij 6pyt)<*e<*>v *v
Trj Trj<s iiatpvos Trepupopa. JuVENAL, VI. 63. SlDONIUS apollinaris,
ix. Ep. xiii. in a description of a feast:
Juvat et vago rotatu
Hare fracta membra ludo :
Simulare vel trementes
Pede, veste, voce Bacchas.
Additional authorities ate indicated in the Antichita di Ehcolano,
Tom. i. p. !I7.