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18 May 1878 — Therapia | |
Saturday. 18th [May 1878]. Got up late having rather a headache. The Antelope arrived from Malta. The panic abt the Russians is subsiding and is explained as being merely a sanitary precaution. After lunch Henry & I drove in the victoria on the road to Belgrade but it was so cut up that we had to turn back half way & so we drove into Buyukdéré where we saw 2 great Russian stores covered over with sailcloth &c. As we passed the gipsies tents near Buyukdéré we saw a woman in a tent seated on the ground beside what was evidently a corpse, wailing & rocking herself backwards & forwards. Capts. Stopford & Wingfield & Lord G. Montague dined with us. Just as we were going to bed Major de Winton turned up having returned from Izmit. | |
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