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18 January 1878 — Constantinople | |
Friday. 18th [January 1878]. Mrs A. Hanson came & took away cut out work to make. She lunched here. After lunch Mrs de Winton & I went down to the station to see Refugees arrive. A train came in just as we got there. The women & children were in the trucks—the men on the tops with their guns & parcels &c. It was a cold drizzly day. The poor things never said a word but merely followed the men appointed to take them off to shelter in 20s & 30s. Some were put into tents and these sat patiently waiting for the food promised them. Large sacks of bread & cauldrons of soup were brought. Earthen ware pans were set full of soup before them & a few wooden spoons which they lent each other all in a most orderly way. | |
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