New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-15
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nected as from it's lOoseness Of construction I
Ielded Gently 10 the sudden elevations and depres-
sions In The bulgarian road and swayed to and
fro like a shin in a storm The horses were not OF
A cloud paving race, nor did their peculiar manner
of locomotion correspond 10 anything / nal feal
Of in the German work on the gaits OF animals, but
nke the ARABIA save q few VICIOUS trchs' tue! sur
pessed oil expectations.
shall never forget that inky leaden sky OF Bal
earia. nor the cold wind which, Graded amops the
lev peaks of the Balkans, swept down The resine
through which we were passing. The Nanscnian
plain. the minarets OF Silistra, the Arab laoa and
the Medjidie were soon out Of sigh, ana drawing
ny travelling cloak closely arouDd me, stretched
myself at full length on the bottom oil the araoa
TO mediate upon the pleasures OF travel among
semi bsrbarians. OF romance there was none, as
ron ance belongs to civilization.
On reaching the elevated plateau which HANKS
the Danube the winding road stretched OIL ID
soutbeasterly direction toward the Euxlne. AS
we advanced the country became billy and broken.
The ravipes were well wooded, many OF the slopes
bore precise resemblance to the oak.openngs oil
tie West and from time to time we passed through
MAGNIFICENT forests that would have done credit
even 10 American scenery. The soil would be ex-
ceedppy fertile were it not for the great scarcity
of water during the months Of Summer and Au-
tumn. During my fret days journey l did not
see a single stream Of water When / passed
through the same region, shortly after the siege OF
SilistIia il presented scene OF the utmost desOla
tion. Hordes of marauding Bashi-Bazouks had
swept away the little left AFTER the fOrages OF the
Cossacks The Bulgarian cabins had been re
duced to ashes, and their inmates swept away by
the rude breath Of war The fountains erected
here and there by MOslem piety or Moslem pride
Lad fallen into decay, had recently been deiaced
and broken by ruthless hands. The Russians had
-. = l. snkr th0 lie and tho
appafitiOn Of outstretched legs from the limpId
water was not peculiarly gratifying to thirsty
traveller, not over fond of hippogaphic entertain
ment Now and then might be seen some half
concealed Bulgarian village, with is grain-ricks
and tiled cabins, belonging perhaps to Turkish
orandee of STEAMBOAT or OF the cities along the
Danube. They had been constructed at a distance
from the main route so as to avoid as far as psss
bic tie yisitatons of the Beys and Pashas in
the days of Turkish insolence. The road
was in state of nature. Sellm, the Turk
ish driver and paragon Of Oriental ease, was
forever losing his way among the dverglng
routes, and the sick man patted along after us on
the spare Arabian. In Turkey the goods OF this
world are so distributed that balfa-dozen or more
females fall to the share of the Mussulman pos
sessed of piasters while scarcely one Turk in five
ever addresses or sees the face of female not
belonging to his family. This fact, however, did
not prevent Ibdallah, my righthand man. aud
witbal plump, goodnatured Turk from mngling
his drawing chants with the signs aud gTOans of
the ARABIA. He seemed happy, just returning as
be was to Stamboul after long campaign on the
Danube and sung Yazal! Yaz0t!-My beautiful -
hour after hour, in nasal tones that would have
done honor to the Psalm singers Of the old Scottish
church or the wOrshpels in Jewish Synagogue.
We met during the day two or three bands of row
ing Gipses aud long train of Bulgarian carts
drawn by bunaloes and loaded with grain for
Silistria.
We made comparatively little progress, and to-
ward night reached KoutchOuk- Kanardj-a large
Bulgarian village, where the celegrated treaty of
that name was signeO on a drUm-head in the year
l774 BY Field Marshal ROmanzoff and the repre-
sentative of the rand Nzier In that convention,
since so often invoked by Turkey as well as Rus
sia. the Porte recognized the independence of the
Tartsrs of the Crimea and granted to the Russians
fec navigation in all the of the Ottoman En-
pire, thus opening the route TO COustantinOple to
the Muscoyite fleets and foreshadowing evils in
Vulnerable to the Turks. Catharine, by way of
compensation restored TO the Ottomans Bessara-
bia. the Danubian Principalities, and the Islands
of the Archipelago, previously conquered by the
Russians.