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At 45 minutes after 12 we enter'd another
Bulgarian village called Faki. Here it
seems this days journey was to end. I
was the less concerned at the delay inasmuch
as I had understood from Dr Bathlozzi,
that if he failed of meeting with us
at Kirk Eglis, it would not be difficult
for him to overtake us before we had left
Faki. We thus waited half a day at Faki,
but no Russian courier, no Italian
Doctor came. The Dr knows the road, having
often travelled it. He speaks Turkish
like a Turk. If he enquired after us, how cou'd
he have missed us? Mr Schneider was to
have come by the same conveyance. If not
after his friend how could he fail enquiring
after his servant and his baggage? I left at
our Inn at Kirk-Eglis an open letter
directed a M.M. le Dr Batholozzi, ou
a quelque autre Cavalier que ce soit dans
la compagnie de Courier Russe: giving
the Master of the house to understand in
the presence of the Janissary &c that it was
for the Courier Moscov: a term that I
had heard frequently from all their mouths.
As for Ahmet, either from laziness or design
he has constantly abstained from all enquiries
and all steps that would tend to effectuate
the junction: once upon my uttering
the words Alas Courier Moscov!
Courier Moscov! in a tone calculat
to make him sensible how much I had it
at heart, he repeated the words after me with
petulance, and followed them by two or three
sentences which from his tone and countenance
were
were evidently expressive of no small
degree of dissatisfaction.
Our hosts of this night consisted of a
middle aged man three women and
2 young children. These people live in
a great state: for besides the open posture
which seems to preface all Bulgarian houses,
his house had two rooms in it,
one within another: the outermost was
abandoned to us three: the family retired
to the innermost, where the cooking as performed:
the evening before that operation
must have been performed at a neighbour's
house, for I saw nothing of it
in our own. How and where 2 Turk
Grooms have fared I have never known:
except that once when we were very coldly
lodged, the servant who happened to have
seen them told me their quarters were
better than our own. The ladies, to judge
from their apparent ages, may have been
grandmother, mother and daughter: the
middlemost wife to the gentleman of the
house: she, still not uncomely: the youngest
beautiful. Her age seemingly about 16, but
still more her maiden bashfulness bespoke her
unmarried. Impelled by motives, stronger, if
any body chooses to have it so than mere
curiosity, I took an early opportunity of paying
a visit to the inner apartment, where I found
the 3 ladies together, with 2 little children;
dirty, squalling, and diseased. Of these last I
took a sort of notice which if I must confess
the truth, I believe I should not have
taken, had it not been to warrant my taking
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