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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt:...likewise to see our teschere. We grumbled and shewed it him, and he grumbled and gave it back. Grumbled, I say, because he seemed disappointed that he could get nothing out of us, and surprised that we should have a bouyourdi from the pasha, by virtue of which we travelled free of dogana dues. "Where are you going?" he of course asked us. On being told Istamboul (eic Tjjv Ttoiv),--" What are you going there for 1" "For amusement." This reply puzzled the inquisitive gentleman more and more. He was completely bewildered, as a Turk cannot, for the life of him, comprehend why persons should take so long a journey and undergo so much inconvenience for pleasure only; and why we VIEW OF MOUNT OLYMPUS. 177 should have a bouyourdi from the pasha to enable us to escape dogana dues, and that by this means he, the said worthy chief of the customs, should be disappointed of the backshish he had doubtless made up his mind was about to find its way into his pocket, he could not or would not comprehend. "But why do you pay no dogana dues?" he asked. "Er& 0tXti 6 Uaaag" (" Because the pasha pleases"), was the reply he got, Which being conclusive, we proceeded on our way to Platamona without further interruption, and arrived there in about ten hours from Larissa. Olympus' snowy top opened again upon our view, as soon as we had passed Tempe, and we were in his company for many days. I think it is the highest mountain I have ever seen at so short a distance from the sea, about ten thousand feet, I should imagine, above its level. What a magnificent view must there not be from the top! The ascent, I was given to understand, is not difficult, but at the season of the year that we passed its foot, the immense quantit...