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7 May 1878 — Therapia | |
Tuesday. 7th [May 1878]. At lunch Henry told me he had heard that the Sultan was going to review the troops at Mashlak so we ordered our horses & set off directly after lunch. As we neared the Sultan’s mosque there we saw there was a guard round the garden & as we looked over the hedge we saw Saïd P. walking with some gentlemen. He called over to us to ask us to come in & we were going to excuse our selves when the Sultan put up his head & Saïd said H.M. is here and begs you will come in, so we rode round to the gate & dismounted & were led by a Circassian A.D.C. into the garden where H.M. was walking with all his Ministers. The G. Vizier Sadyk P. walked close & interpreted & H.M. complimented me on my riding & offered to send me a horse. Henry whispered to Sadyk not to let him send me one as it would make a fuss among the newspaper correspondents. H.M. led us into the Kiosque & made me sit by him on a sofa & Sadyk & Safet Pashas came in & sat with their toes turned in & holding their stomachs on 2 stools. Safet with his habit of making grimaces looked like a naughty school boy who had just been caned & who still was writhing. We asked H.M. to let us go on as we must be home before dark. We mounted & went on to see the camp & then turned home. We met Fuad Pasha the commander in chief who invited us to dismount & have coffee & hear the band but we excused ourselves & said we wd come another time expressly. Messrs Smijth, Ashburnham & the Genl dined with us. | |
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