Lanterna Rally

Author: Henry C. Barkley

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-06-10

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780282349073

Excerpt from A Ride Through Asia Minor and Armenia: Giving a Sketch of the Characters, Manners, and Customs of Both the Mussulman and Christian Inhabitants A few days in London, and our outfit was ready and packed, and a few days more of rapid travelling carried us to Bucharest; and though this is the capital of a country that is new independent, it had so recently emancipated itself from the suzerainty of the Sultan, that I shall com menee jotting down What we saw there, as an introduction to our long journey farther eastward. Some years ago we had both of us lived much in this town, and knew it and its people well, and we were not prepared for the great strides in improvement both town and country had made. Instead of being slowly dragged into the town boxed up in a diligence over muddy roads, we dashed up to the barrier in an express train, and, after a few minutes spent in collecting our luggage, we drove in a comfortable little open carriage, through well-paved, well-lighted streets, to the Hotel broff, opposite the Opera House, Where another pleasant surprise awaited us. Instead of the old, dirty smelling hotel of former days, we found ourselves in a house as clean and comfortable as the good old hotels of Vienna, with an attentive host, civil waiters, respectable chamber-maids, and no smells; and we afterwards dis covered there was yet another hotel in the place, equally good, and much larger. Then, as to the town itself, twenty years ago I saw a horse bogged in a mud-hole in one of the chief streets. Fifteen years ago the main street1. Asia minor am) armenia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.