IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| Overland to India : vol.1 | |
| インドへの陸路 : vol.1 |
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引用情報
II ANARCHY ON THE COLCHIS COAST 2I
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membrance of me." In five minutes we were friends for life, the captain of the Saturn() and I ; a first-class deck cabin was assigned to me, 6 roubles were paid for the ticket—I saved 494 roubles and ten days in time ; two Turks, whose passports were not in order, were taken ashore, and the steamer glided out of the harbour, leaving a white and light-green wake behind it. With a feeling of freedom and satisfaction I saw the façades, minarets, and churches of Batum sink below the horizon, and before us, to the south-west, the coast of Asia Minor stretching out to an endless distance.
The great thing is to get away safely from Batum. I have telegraphed to the Swedish Minister in Constantinople, and am already vouched for in Trebizond."
In my inmost soul I saw before me no end of troubles with Turkish customs officers, who just at that time must be very particular with vessels from disturbed Russia, but I kept a bold face and answered quietly, Geographical exploration," when the captain asked me the object of my journey.
" That is unnecessary," he declared ; " much better collect stamps as I do."
Then I can accommodate you with some Persian stamps I bought from a Greek in Batum ; will you look at them ? "
" Certainly." He chose out those that he did not possess, and asked if he could buy them.
" No ; but you may have them as a present in re-
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