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8 July 1879 — Therapia | |
Tuesday. 8th [July 1879]. Wrote to send letters by messenger. Had my Turkish lesson. Sat in garden till it was time to dress for dinner & at 5.30 went on board the Antelope & went down to Pera to dine with Zichy. We took with us Hatzfeldt, Nellie, Ittersum & Corti & Mr Corbett. When we got to town we found the Austrian stationnaire boats waiting to take us on shore & Zichy had sent carriages for us to take us to the Embassy. We dined in his little garden & as it got dark before we had finished dinner the garden was lighted up with many lamps & we sat out all the eveng till past 10. It was not very lively & we were not sorry to go. Ct Zichy insisted on our walking down the steep hill outside his gates & he gave me his arm & conducted me. The sailors of his despatch boats stood at intervals burning Bengal lights to show us the way. We found the carriages at the bottom of the hill & Zichy accompanied us to Top-Khaneh sailors with lanterns running by the side. Zichy’s boats put us on board the Antelope & we returned home—not getting to bed before 12. | |
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