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. 1920 Excerpt: ...It was about four o'clock in the evening when we arrived at Alessio. We had some difficulty in finding the beg or local dignitary to whom our host in Scutari had given us a letter. When we finally found him we discovered he could speak nothing but Albanian. He was a picturesque figure, as his costume was freely embroidered with gold and silver and his handsome silver-studded belt was filled with an arsenal of silvermounted knives and revolvers. Through an interpreter he informed us that a telegram had been received from Essad Pasha, stating that a gendarme would be given to us to act as escort. When we interviewed the latter, however, he informed us we would have to wait another thirty-six hours in Alessio till the weekly Italian mail from Scutari arrived, as he had also to escort it to Durazzo. As we were unwilling to lose another day we determined to push on without this addition to our force. We got off the next morning at seven o'clock. The route lay over an old Turkish causeway of cobblestones as large as a child's head, worn as smooth as glass by constant floods, over which the horses sliddered as if they were on roller skates. After riding for four or five miles, during which my horse nearly fell at least twice a minute, this proved too much for my nerves, and I got down and led him. A mile further I had to mount again, as we found that a river crossed this road at right angles and that half the bridge spanning it was gone. The extremity of the broken half remaining was buried in the water. My horse waded in and soon the water was right up to his withers. On reaching the broken bridge I found that it did not touch the ground in the riverbed, but was suspended about four and a half feet from the bottom. My horse had therefore to rear up, place his for...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150665939
- ISBN 13 9781150665936
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages86