Volume 1

Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope, forming the completion of her memoirs, narrated by her physician.

  • Meryon, Charles Lewis, 1783-1877.
Date:
1846
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope, forming the completion of her memoirs, narrated by her physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    CHAPTER IV. Procession of the Sultan to the Mosque—A Dinner party —Therapia—Visiters there—Lady Hester seeks permission to reside in France—Turbulence of the Janissaries—Pera— Visit to Hafez Aly—Captain Pasha—Mahometan patients attended by the Author — Princess Morousi — Disagreeable climate of Constantinople — Return Lord Sligo to Malta ...... 50 CHAPTER V. The Author goes to Brusa—Situation of the city—Baths— Surrounding country — Residence at Brusa — Lady Hester mistaken for a youth—Women of Brusa — Return of the Author to Constantinople—Sudden death of Mr. Alexander, Lady Hester’s banker — Departure from Brusa — Residence at Bebec — Provisions — Excursion to the village of Bel- grade — Throwing the Giryd — Fast of Ramadan — Lady Hester resolves to winter in Egypt—Presents to the Author for professional attentions . . .73 CHAPTER VI. Departure from Constantinople—Prince’s Islands—Scio— Drunken Turk—Rhodes—Storm—The ship springs a leak— Servants dismayed—Land seen—The ship founders—Escape of the passengers to a rock—The sailors proceed to the Island of Rhodes—They return—The crew mutiny—The passengers gain the Island; and reach a hamlet—Our distressed situation —The Author departs for the town of Rhodes—Hassan Bey refuses assistance—The houses—Lady Hester ill of a fever— Lindo — Its port — The Arch on Petraki — Reports that the party were lost—Lady Hester arrives at Rhodes—Town— Why Lady Hester chose the Turkish dress—Posting in Turkey —Mustafa . . . . .95