The Dead Sea Author:William Allen Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. IV. MARMORICE BAY. Promenades at Smyrna. Unhealthy Swamps. Visit to the Governor. Promises of Reform. The Barracks. Banditti caught in a Tr... more »ap. Engaging a Dragoman. Family Quarrels.Difficult Negociation.A happy Reconciliation. Embark for Rhodes. Scio beautiful in Appearance, but desolate. The late Frost. Oranges all destroyed. The Government of the Island. The Harbour.A Russian Spy. Pilgrim Passengers. Samos. Rhodes. Our kind Consul. Visit to the Governor-General. His Sherbet, Pipes, and Zafs. The Turkish Admiral Osman Pacha. Invited to go to Mamorice Harbour. The Compass in the Admiral's Iron Steamer. Intelligence of the Turkish Soldiers. The Entrance of the Harbour. Turkish Dinner. The Cook. Hellenic Fortress. The Town picturesque outside, wretched within. Farmhouse. Fertile Country, but unhealthy. Exorbitant Prices. An honest Turkish Official. A Governor of the old School. Lions and Tigers said to be in the Mountains. Singers on Board serenaded the Fair Ones of the Town. Returned to Rhodes. The Pachas as Guests at the Consul's. To the lover of promenades Smyrna is the most disagreeable of towns, unless he will balance the absence of other appliances by the advantage of getting a sufficient amount of fatigue in a short space; for he will find that the rugged, brokenup pavements of the streets and the roads in the neighbourhood contribute to this way of economising time. The only place where the inhabitants delight to walk is to Windmill Point; a strip of land but little above the level of the sea, with the noxious swamps of the mouths of the Meles and the Hemus in its vicinity, breeding no inconsiderable amount of malaria, if I may trust to some experience in the smell of ma...« less