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With the Conquering Turk; Confessions of a Bashibazouk
With the Conquering Turk Confessions of a Bashibazouk Author:George Warrington Steevens General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1897 Original Publisher: W. Blackwood and sons Subjects: Greco-Turkish War, 1897 Greco-Turkish war, 1897 History / Europe / Greece Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy th... more »e General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 16 III. A HOSPITAL'S HOSPITALITY. Except at the extreme south-western corner a crescent of fairly high and fairly steep hills cuts off Salonica from the country inland -- cuts it off also from the land - breeze in summer, as the British resident will cheerfully remind you. On the first low slopes of these hills, looking down over a quarter of a mile of dusty common, of houses half built and houses half fallen to pieces, stands the very long, white - plastered, green- shuttered, two-storeyed hospital. In front of it is a garden, with shady trees and flower-beds. Pansies and stocks were blossoming there in the last week of March, so forward was the year in that sheltered bay, though all the mountains down the Greek coast were crusted with snow, and we heard -- always, of course, from Vienna, Salon ica's nearest communication with the world -- of terrible weather on the frontier. You walk A GIFT FROM THE ADMIRALTY. 17 through the garden over a kind of tesselated pavement, prettily picked out in stones of different colours -- red, white, brown. Then you walk up the broad stone steps; opposite you is a clock with an inscription. An inscription in English, moreover, to the effect that it was given by the Admiralty in recognition of the kindness and skill displayed in treating petty officers and seamen for smallpox. This began to throw a new light on the Turk, that he should be equal to curing bluejackets of smallpox. The Pasha in supreme command was away on a tour of the field...« less