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Visits to monasteries in the Levant (1849)

Curzon, Robert, 1810-1873 · London : J. Murray · leaf 293

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and the stocks of theirpistols, are almost always of silver, as well as theirthree or four little cartridge boxes, which are frequentlygilt, and sometimes set with garnets and coral; anAlbanian is therefore worth shooting, even if he is notof another way of thinking from the gentleman whoshoots… … TATAR, OR GOVERNMENT MESSENGER. Chap. XVir. COMPARATIVE SAFETY OF FOREIGNERS. 237 s. and I resolved, therefore, not to be thwarted in myintention of exploring some of the monasteries of thatcountry. There is another reason also why Franksare seldom molested in the East—every Arab orAlbanian knows…

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