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Excerpt from Turkey and Its Destiny, Vol. 2 of 2: The Result of Journeys Made in 1847 and 1848 to Examine Into the State of That Country
Journey back to Constantinople Kelessen Ycrvacki and Family Demirdesh A Greek assassinated by mistake: his Widow Greek Marriage Festivals The Greek lay-primates Oppressive Taxation Forced Labour Arbitrary Fines Crushing weight of Interest Story of the Greek Bishop at Brusa Decay of religious Belief and of Respect for the Greek Clergy Church and School of Demirdesh More about Weddings Greek Gallantry Ghemlik, or Ghio kir-yani his House and Lion and Unicorn Mr. Longworth Tuzlar and the English Farm Agricultural Remarks Vindictive Bulgarians Leave-takings kir-yani and his and end Turkish Steamer Delays A Turkish Colonel A Dervish liadji Costl, &e. &c. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
