The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-10-26

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having persisted by the Turkish sword,
and $4,000 having been dragged into
Mohamedan captivity or finally most /
to admire the heroism of Constantine |
Canaris and his brave thirty.three
who avenged the Moslem carnage by |
blowing up the vessel Of the Pasha, |
with a crew of 1000 men, shouting |
the war cry, Victory to the Cross"
About dark, we neared Samos, one |
of the largest of the Hgean Islands, |
which, after compelling the Chians to
ioin in the revolution that led to the
above destruction, obtained for them
selves such terms that they only pay
a moderate tribute to the Ottoman
Empire.
The moon shone with tropical
splendor, and enabled US, by watching
until midnight, and even into the first
hour of Sunday morning, to discern
on our right the outlines Of that small
and rocky, but ever memorable isle, IN
which 81 years after the Christian era,
the Savior loving Evangelist being
:" in the spirit on the Lords day,
heard great voice as of a trumpet
commanding him to write the things
which shah be hereafter, so that he
that hath an ear, may hear the mys-
teries Of the dread apocalypse. And
John wrote In the caves of Patmos,
the Revelations of Holy Writ.
RHODES.
Founded by Hippodamus, of Mile
tus, 408 B. g., the city of Rhodes, in
the Island Of the same name, was
early noted for its colossal bronze
statue, reckoned one of the seven
wonders of the world, being 105 feet
high; but in the year 224 b. O., after
enjoying its reputation only fifty. six
years, il was destroyed by an earth
quake. AT length, in A. ID. 672, every
vestige of the Rhodian Colossus was
carried off, loaded on nine hundred
camels.
After the Knights Of st. John, Of
Jerusalem, had been expelled from
Palestine, they received the Island of
Rhodes, A. d. 1908, as gift from the
Emperor Emanuel. Here they main
tanned their power for over two GEN.
turtles, notwithstanding the frequent
sieges they sustained from the Turks
but they were at length SO sorely beset
by Solyman the Magnificent, that they
capitulated after a four months siege.
retiring with all the honors of war.
| Conducted by their Grand Master,
Villiere de lIsle Adam, they retired
Jan. LIST, 1922, to Crete. and after
wards to Sicily; and in 1880, the EN-
peror Charles v. ceded to them the
Island of Malta.
1t was exceedingly interesting to
| trace in Modern Rhodes many relics
of those gallant knights. Their
grand hospital. now grauary, shows
| its durable character. Their massive
gates and grand bridges, their tower
ing bastiOns and deep meats all speak
of deeds in arms, and recall the brill
| liant defense whose record thrilled
with interest the chivalry of the
civilized world. The Street of the
Knights yet displays, in stone carv-
ings over their dwellings, many a
| gallant shield and noble armorial
bearings, replete with feurs de hs,
rampant lions and daggered arms, no
idle boasts of their romantic bravery.
How different the present condition
of that triangular Isle with its 1000
feet high mountain. ArtemisiS. we
now see Turks and Greeks, Armeni-
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busy market, hawking their products
on donkey packsaddles, or Offering on
the Bazaar counter, wheat and barley,
melons and figs, partridges and
grapes, coral and sponges. In the
Greek quarter we examine attentively
the curious tesselated pavement of
different colored pebbles interspersed
artistically in varied forms, and are
politely invited to enter. Not only is
the yard thus laid, but even the floors
of their best rooms. Their women
glide about on high pattens or clogs,
and hasten to show their hospitality
by Offering aniseed cordial and the
conventional welcome Of a scented
shrub sprig. We speak our thanks
through the dragoman, and pass again
into the streets. Calling for a Turk
ish water purified tobacco pipe, our
guide seats himself on the wharf
opposite coffee house and invites US
to partake. We decline but admire
the arrangement by which their
already mild tobacco, if it must be
smoked, is rendered still milder by
passing through water at every section
from the amber mouth piece of his
flexible tube.
But the steam from Scamander's
waste pipe warns US on board. and we
bid adieu to the soft atmosphere and
haZy, lazy, still life Of the once glori-
GUS and energetic Rhodes.
Not the Rhone's most blue of wa
tiers at Geneva can exceed in ultra
marine color portions of this Levan-
tine Mediterranean. as we glide in a
native small craft over the unrippled
surface of the sea to our good ship Of
the
MESSAGERIEs IMPERIALE LINES.
A word on this subject may not be
uninteresting to travellers. Certainly
we have no complaint to make of the
Russian boats, even less perhaps of
the Austrian Lloyd steamers; but we
could ask for nothing more agreeable
in the way of travelling than to have the
comforts and even luxuries of the fine
boats in the Messsgeries line, while
on board, and opportunities at all the
important points of going ashore, to
view during some hours the many OBJ
Jects of interest with which the ORR
entail ports are replete.
When you have been galloping over
some arid district to view the mag
ni6cent ruins, you return, almost as
if to a home, to find on board prompt
and civil attendance, ample and varied
meals of fish, flesh and fowl, the
vessel carrying live sheep, rabbits,
partridges and the like. ready for the
butcher; agreeable society among
those who have travelled much, some
times on Missionary tours, good &C.
commodations for bathing, walking
and writing, although the latter is
sometimes rendered rather illegible
By the motion of the vessel; in short
these pleasures, added to the charm
ing balmy air. in thoroughly ventil-
ated berths, and cabins. las well as