Archaeology In Asia Minor Plates 25 32

Author : Henry John Van-Lennep
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230004938
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Travels in Little Known Parts of Asia Minor and Rechearches in Archaeology written by Henry John Van-Lennep and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...Frank traveller would be thought only a poor devil who may be plundered by all who meet him, a party with a police oflicer at the head is supposed to contain some consular or inilitary-dignitaryf And again, the exactions of the zabtiehs keep the rural population in constant dread of them, so that one of these men will secure to you the best quarters in a village, and whatever provisions the place afi"ords. You only need to see that everything is strictly paid for, and that the official takes no unwarrantable liberties 'with the poor people. On the whole, it is my decided opinion that when a European or foreigner has been several times over the same road, and is known to the natives, he will gain nothing whatever by encumbering himself with one of these men. But when he travels over a new road he will find it wisest to submit to the unpleasant necessity. The encumbrance is necessary; it will pay. But he should take a man from the capital of one Pashalik to another. As a general rule, these men, receiving monthly wages from Government to act as mounted or foot " gendai-mes," or as messengers, are allowed to accompany a traveller as a special favour, the expedition being considered a holiday; the traveller VOL. 11. M feeds them and their horse, and gives them a present at the end of from 5 to 10 piastres a day: prices differ in different provinces. There are places, however, where the whole support of the zabtieh is thrown upon the traveller, and Government stops the man's wages during the trip-until his return; it thus becomes a really expensive luxury which one should certainly dispense with if he can. On leaving Izeddin our direction continued west. Passed a collection of black Koordish tents, whose flocks were...