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DISCOVERIES AT EPIIESUS.
Leave for
England.
The
sacred
clog.
In spite of all this carelessness and non-appreciation
of antiquities, the Curator spoke with great bitterness of
my digging up ' such a number of beautiful things,' and
sending them all to England, assuring me that I should
not obtain the renewal of my firman for another year.
His anger was intensified when I expressed my certitude
of obtaining all that I wanted, not only for that year, but
for any number of years successively, adding that it
was a very small return for the Turks to make for the
English blood spilt in their cause, which I fervently hoped
would never be so wasted again.
Three or four days after I had had my interview
with Server Pasha, I went a second time to see Ahmet
Yefik Effendi; but the coins had not arrived, and, a few
more days having been spent in doing all I could, with
the aid of Mr. Pisani, to obtain my firman, I was assured
by Sir Henry Elliot that I could not do better than leave
the matter in his hands. We therefore left Constanti-
nople for England June 1st.
During our stay at Constantinople, all the Turkish
I world went to see the sacred clog of Mahomet, which had
been brought in the same vessel with us from Smyrna.
The day which we chose for seeing the treasury
happened unfortunately to be the one appointed for the
ladies of the Sultan's harem and other ladies to see the:
cloo". The gates of the treasury were therefore closed
against us, and not even a silver or golden key would
open them.
END OF SEASON 1871-72.
Leave for
England.
The
sacred
clog.
In spite of all this carelessness and non-appreciation
of antiquities, the Curator spoke with great bitterness of
my digging up ' such a number of beautiful things,' and
sending them all to England, assuring me that I should
not obtain the renewal of my firman for another year.
His anger was intensified when I expressed my certitude
of obtaining all that I wanted, not only for that year, but
for any number of years successively, adding that it
was a very small return for the Turks to make for the
English blood spilt in their cause, which I fervently hoped
would never be so wasted again.
Three or four days after I had had my interview
with Server Pasha, I went a second time to see Ahmet
Yefik Effendi; but the coins had not arrived, and, a few
more days having been spent in doing all I could, with
the aid of Mr. Pisani, to obtain my firman, I was assured
by Sir Henry Elliot that I could not do better than leave
the matter in his hands. We therefore left Constanti-
nople for England June 1st.
During our stay at Constantinople, all the Turkish
I world went to see the sacred clog of Mahomet, which had
been brought in the same vessel with us from Smyrna.
The day which we chose for seeing the treasury
happened unfortunately to be the one appointed for the
ladies of the Sultan's harem and other ladies to see the:
cloo". The gates of the treasury were therefore closed
against us, and not even a silver or golden key would
open them.
END OF SEASON 1871-72.