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Visits to monasteries in the Levant (1849)

Curzon, Robert, 1810-1873 · London : J. Murray · leaf 309

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te a forest of them, of all lengthsand sizes. When the Vizir was gone and the dustsubsided, I strolled out of the town on foot, when Icame upon the troops, who were learning the newEuropean exercise. Seeing a man sitting on a carpetin the middle of the plain, I went up to him and foundthat he was… … •niUKlSH COMMON SOLDIER. Chap. XVII. ALBANIAN SOLDIEKS. 251 ject. We therefore continued to smoke the pipe ofpeace on the carpet of reflection, while the soldiersentangled themselves in all sorts of incomprehensibledoublings and counter-marches, till at last the wholebody was so much puzzled, that…

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