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. 1834 Excerpt: ...people lived at the extremity of tike isiand, and sotse tfrrae afba-were driven away, in cooseq-iecee of the repeated murders, exactions, and cruelty of their oppressor. SS.iWO weenen and children were;id Is slaves. Sccce ot" the young men were taken to serve in their fleet, where they were kept as slaves. This is a ...
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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. 1834 Excerpt: ...people lived at the extremity of tike isiand, and sotse tfrrae afba-were driven away, in cooseq-iecee of the repeated murders, exactions, and cruelty of their oppressor. SS.iWO weenen and children were;id Is slaves. Sccce ot" the young men were taken to serve in their fleet, where they were kept as slaves. This is a melancholy, bet, ahs'. too true a picture of Turkish barbarity. Indeed I was told by some of the officers of the Cambrian who visited this island shortly after, that the monsters had carried desolation and cruelty to its greatest height: the streets and houses at almost every step presented the mangled corpses of the unhappy victims left to rot and breed pestilence, which indeed reached this town soon after, and carried off many Turks. Not long after this catastrophe, it seemed as if Providence had directed the gallant Canaris, the famed fireship commander, to avenge the fate of his fallen countrymen. The fleet of the Turks was still at anchor off the town of Scio, when this intrepid sailor, Canaris, after great perseverance, succeeded in grappling his fire-ship to that of the Capitan Pasha, and escaped with his gallant crew in a boat. This line-of-battle ship was most effectually destroyed, the Pasha and nearly eight hundred souls met their fate, and only a few were saved to tell the tale of this most effective destruction. My friends in the Cambrian had visited this RETRIBUTION. 215 Pasha only a few days previously, and saw the blowing up of his ship while passing up the Gulf of Smyrna at night, which was awfully grand. Though rather an uncivilized mode of warfare, still it appeared like a just retribution on the Turks for all the crimes they had committed on thousands of inoffending Greeks who had actually taken no part in the war! The s...
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