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Chapter 6 Smyrna — First Glimpses of the East
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I am glad that the Turkish part of Athens was extinct, so that I should not be baulked of the pleasure of entering an Eastern town by an introduction to any garbled1 or incomplete specimen2 of one. Smyrna seems to me the most Eastern of all I have seen; as Calais will probably remain to the Englishman the most French town in the world. The jack-boots of the postilions don’t seem so huge elsewhere, or the tight stockings of the maid-servants so Gallic. The churches and the ramparts, and the little soldiers on them, remain for ever impressed upon your memory; from which larger temples and buildings, and whole armies have subsequently disappeared: and the first words of actual French heard spoken, and the first dinner at “Quillacq’s,” remain after twenty years as clear as on the first day. Dear Jones, can’t you remember the exact smack3 of the white hermitage, and the toothless old fellow singing “Largo al factotum”?
The first day in the East is like that. After that there is nothing. The wonder is gone, and the thrill of that delightful4 shock, which so seldom touches the nerves of plain men of the world, though they seek for it everywhere. One such looked out at Smyrna from our steamer, and yawned without the least excitement, and did not betray the slightest emotion, as boats with real Turks on board came up to the ship. There lay the town with minarets5 and cypresses6, domes7 and castles; great guns were firing off, and the blood-red flag of the Sultan flaring8 over the fort ever since sunrise; woods and mountains came down to the gulf9’s edge, and as you looked at them with the telescope, there peeped out of the general mass a score of pleasant episodes of Eastern life — there were cottages with
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