This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...be seen, and one would have thought it not fifty years old. Ignorant and idle people in all parts of the world believe greatly in 'hidden treasure, ' and the ignorant and idle Turk is no exception to the rule. All' treasure trove' was claimed by the Government, and the way the great officials constantly wrote to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...be seen, and one would have thought it not fifty years old. Ignorant and idle people in all parts of the world believe greatly in 'hidden treasure, ' and the ignorant and idle Turk is no exception to the rule. All' treasure trove' was claimed by the Government, and the way the great officials constantly wrote to entreat Issa Effendi to keep a sharp look-out for it, showed they expected great things. They were sadly disappointed, for they did not care for such ' trash' as Roman antiquities, and they never got a shilling's worth of hard cash. They nearly worried the life out of Issa by this. He would sit all day in the broiling sun on the edge of the cliff, under a white umbrella, and whenever he saw a man rest from his work for a moment, and two or three heads come together, away he would scuttle on his bandy-legs and arrive puffing and blowing among the men to demand what they were looking at, and he usually received some such answer as 'a blister on my hand, Effendi, ' or, 'a splinter from the pick has pierced me.' The men did not like him, nor his occupation as spy, and I am sure intentionally played tricks upon him. Ch. xix. Lodos, a South Wind. CHAPTER XIX. Lodos, a south wind--The iron house--Unwelcome visitors--Tried for assault--Cast in damages--Albanian masons--Black mail--Brigands at supper. If any of my readers have ever spent a day in the Levant during a Sirocco wind, or what the Turks call Lodos, they will not have forgotten it, but those who have not may like to hear what they have as yet mercifully escaped. Well, we will suppose a man, young, strong, full of vigour, having plenty of work to do, and eager to do it. One night towards the end of winter he retires to rest, having first mapped out a long and busy day for the morrow. The evening is a ...
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