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12 May 1880 — Therapia | |
Wednesday. 12th [May 1880]. At 10 oclock the Antelope fetched us to take us to town. Last night we were playing dominoes & were just going to bed when Henry got a telegram from town saying an Englishman Mr Burness while walking with his wife & an English girl on the road to the Sweet Waters had been robbed, dangerously wounded so taken to the French Hospital at Chichli– I sent to ask the Washingtons to go down in the Antelope with us to see Burness & I invited old Mrs Sandison to go to the Bazaar with us. At Candilli we picked up Mrs Arthur & we landed as soon as we got to town & went in 2 carriages to the Bazaars. Being such a large party & the Ambr one of it prices went up tremendously & we cd get nothing. Mrs Sandison & I went off to the Armenian shops but the prices of everything were such that we did buy nothing. Livres were asked instead of piastres. We returned to the Bedesten where we bought a few cups & zarfs & joined our party & then returned to the Antelope leaving Mrs A. Hanson to buy what we had pointed out. We lunched & then Henry & the Gregorys started off to drive round the walls and see the Mosaic mosque at the Adrianople gate. I sat with Mrs Sandison talking & working & my head ached all day– Mrs Arthur came with the purchases wh were most satisfactory. Abt 5 Henry returned & we had tea & steamed up the Bosphorus & got home to dinner pretty tired– Sir Alfred dined with us. | |
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