t at Smyrna from our steamer, and yawned without the least excitement, and did not betray the slightest emotion, as boats with real Turks on board came up to the ship. There lay the town with minarets and cypresses, domes and castles; great guns were firing off, and the blood-red flag Miehet Kobuk of the Sultan flaring over the fort ever since sunrise; woods and mountains came down to Koszulka Kun Aguero Koszulka the gulf’s edge, and as you looked at them with the telescope, arctic parka there peeped out of the general mass a score Climarron of pleasant episodes of Eastern life — there Koszulka Diego Costa Koszulka were cottages with quaint roofs; silent cool kiosks, where the chief of the eunuchs Koszulka Juventus brings down the ladies of the harem. I saw Hassan, the fisherman, getting his nets; and Ali Baba going off with his donkey to the great forest for wood. Smith looked at these wonders quite unmoved; and I was surprised at his apathy; but he had been at Smyrna before. A man only sees the miracle once; though you yearn over it ever so, it won’t come again. I saw nothing of Ali Baba and Hassan the next time we came to Smyrna, and had some doubts (recollecting the badness of the inn) about landing at all. A person who wishes to understand France or the East should come in a yacht to Calais or Smyrna, land for two hours, and never afterwards go back again.
But those two hours are beyond measure delightful. Some of us were querulous Naiset Californian Mystic up to that time, and doubted of the wisdom of making the voyage. Lisbon, we owned, was Kobiety Barbour Liddesdale Kurtka a failure; Athens a dead failure; Malta very well, but not worth the trouble and sea-sickness: in fact, Baden-Baden Moncler Takki or Devonshire would be a better move than this; when Smyrna came, and rebuked all mutinous Cockneys into silence. Some men may read this who are in want of a sensation. If they love the odd and picturesque, if they loved the “Arabian Nights” in their youth, let them book themselves on board one of the Peninsular and Oriental vessels, and try one DIP into Constantinople or Smyrna. Walk into the bazaar, and the East is unveiled to you: how often and often have you tried to fancy th
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