were discharged freely, but no speeches were gayharcore xxx made gayharcore xxx save one thanking the
gayharcore xxx Emperor and the gayharcore xxx Grand Duke, through the Governor-General, for our
hospitable reception, and one by the GovernorGeneral in reply, in which he
returned the Emperor's thanks for the gayharcore xxx speech, etc., etc.
Chapter 38
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
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WE returned to Constantinople, and after a day or two spent in
gayharcore xxx exhausting marches about the city and gayharcore xxx voyages gayharcore xxx up gayharcore xxx the Golden Horn in
caiques, we steamed away again. We passed through the Sea of Marmora and
the Dardanelles, and steered for a new land -- a new one to us, at gayharcore xxx least
--
Asia. We gayharcore xxx had as yet only acquired a bowing acquaintance with it, through
pleasure excursions to Scutari and the regions round about.
We passed between Lemnos and Mytilene, and saw them as we had seen
Elba and the Balearic Isles -- mere bulky shapes, with gayharcore xxx the softening gayharcore xxx mists
of distance upon gayharcore xxx them -- whales in a fog, as it were. Then we held our
course southward, and began to "read up" celebrated Smyrna.
At all hours of the day and night the sailors in the forecastle amused
themselves and aggravated us by burlesquing our visit to royalty. The
opening paragraph of our Address to gayharcore xxx the gayharcore xxx Emperor was framed as follows:
"We are a handful of private citizens of America, traveling simply for
recreation -- and unostentatiously, as becomes our unofficial state -- and,
therefore, we have no excuse to gayharcore xxx tender for presenting ourselves before your
Majesty, save the desire of offering our grateful acknowledgments to the
lord of a realm, which, through good and through evil report, has been the
steadfast friend gayharcore xxx of the land we love so well."
The third cook, crowned with a resplendent tin basin and
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wrapped royally in a table-cloth mottled with grease-spots and coffee
stains, and bearing gayharcore xxx a sceptre that looked gayharcore xxx strangely like a belaying-pin,
walked upon a dilapidated carpet and perched himself on the capstan,
careless of the flying spray; his tarred and weather-beaten Chamberlains,
Dukes and Lord High Admirals surrounded him, arrayed in all the pomp that
spare tarpaulins and remnants of old sails could furnish. Then the visiting
"watch below," gayharcore xxx transformed into gayharcore xxx graceless ladies and