Travels in Turkey and back to EnglandChishull, Edmund
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Travels in Turkey and back to England
Chishull, Edmund
Turkey -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
From _Senigée_ we proceed this morning in three hours to _Cokúck
Derocut_, and from thence in the like time to _Boiák Dervent_, where we
find his Excellency’s tents orderly and conveniently placed, and all
things regularly disposed for this night’s lodging. Here we saw an old
Bulgar Christian, named _Staón_, aged one hundred and twenty years[112];
who told us, that he had all his life time been subject to great and
continual sickness, and had three times changed his teeth, once in his
infancy, and twice in his old age. They were now for the most part
intire, his senses of hearing and tasting very lively, and his sight but
little decayed; his beard and his eyebrows lately became perfectly black,
but the hair of his head milk white, and the skin of his breast like the
bark of an old weather beaten beech.
April x.
We travel this day from _Dervent_ to _Jenícui_, having hitherto found
the country to consist of a level campain, and a soil that promised
fertility, were it more happily furnished with inhabitants, water, and
wood.
April xi.
We now proceed from _Jenícui_ to _Pashácui_, so called from the residence
of _Achmét Gerai Sultan_, who is a Tartar prince, happily banished from
his own barbarous country to this fair and delightful village, situated
in a verdant plain, that is better furnished with wood, than the campain
we had lately passed; and watered with a small river, which seems to
rise from the bowels of mount _Haemus_, and bend its course towards the
_Tunsa_.
April xii.
From _Pashácui_ we arrive at _Comorwa_, a rich well cultivated village,
and plentifully supplied both with wood and water. In our way hitherto
from _Adrianople_ we sometimes observed drummers, placed in the nature of
watchmen, to give notice of the security of the road.
April xiii.
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