Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-09-04
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l The Rising Port Of LaSnaoa...A Las,
Dsoaysd and odorous Plase Wakl1
I Out Of Its Long Lstharsy.
CORES. of the Londea STANDARD.
What . wretched decayed congeries /
ruinous whitewashed cabinsl a white
! sepulchrel 6ueE is half . century befor
it In civiliEation. Narrow, uneve
street: few rugged ade paths; ten,
mcnts hastily run up Of lath and plaster
here and there q pfetenti0us house {
worship, with semi-globalar dome:
bazaar of the nsual Asiatic type, with
tpatched awning of mats, : ragged fJet
4 work overhead; wide arched and groine
barnlike stores, a. yet kuiltles of mar
lehandise; Cobblerp benches, slniths
fofges, stal1a nth stdhs, pipes, curlOsftieS
unpleasant odors, ofial, flies, dogs. Such
LArnaca! I was foIcibly reminded 0
Tangiers, but the reader, mayhap, doe
not know it. There are sights and smell
like it In the purlius of Petticoat Ian,
in the summer solstice. Half of the in
habitants are workers in leather. Tel
days ago there was but one dingy caft
in the place; now there are dozen, and
you can procure-by paying for them
dear, and on the spot Colman' mustard,
Huntley and Palmer's biscuits, potted
lobster, Swiss condensed milk, Dundee
marmalade and StratfOrd ale. The pio-
neers of progress are principally Greeks.
Enterprising-or, rather, speculative
these wandering specimens OF the Orc
c4lue esNricns. But fancy my astonish.
ment when I walked into q saddlery
store, and was saluted in German. The
streets, or rather lanes and blind alleys,
arc traveFsed by the heterogeneous Grew
customary to Levantine latitudes, and
there is the customary motleynem Of
drea-Jewisif Eaberdines, bagxy trousers,
Egyptians in multi-butt0ned short Jack
ets, ahrouded Mohammedan women in
yaAhmakH barehesded Christian girla
who decidedly are nol of the progeny oi
Venus, Turks ia fex and black broad
cloth, and Franks in tOpee and thin
white tunics, Greek priests in brimlem,
cylindrical headgeer and Oxford-liks
gownA and soldiers, Indian, Europsan
and Turkish. For the sultan's soldier,
in his semi-Zouave uniform, IL here yet,
mounts guard on the Marina (or Scala,
~ they call it), with fixed bayonet, dccs
the policing, and does it passing we'll. ]
studied this sOldiery. / saw it inspect
ed. The army at the sublime porte at
LArnaca consists Of five rank and iile,
but then there are three officers, and tn
uniform OF each soldier IL different in
pattern. No two vests or trousess are
alike except in their greasy, aoiled look
and their frayed and patched e~ssssbis.
After inspection, the commander.
in-chief, portly man, hied him
to his cafe, and one Of his armed re.
tainen, . Moslem edition Of the .D0ugal
creature, brought him his narghueh,
with its water decanter, bowl, and it
long, snake-like elastic stem. This 10
tainer placed . lump of live charcoal
over the tobacco in the narghileh's head,
stuck the bran mouthpieco between hid
lips, and gave . few deep inhalations tc
stimulate the pipe into working order,
and then. wiping the mouthpiece with
his sleeve, handed It to his master. To
60 back to the description Of the town,
the parish ours gnawcd bones BY the
ragged fringe Of the quay; eggs and
prickly pears were exhibited for sale in
baskets; the carcases of newly -slaugh.
tered sheep were hung on hooks in The
open air; . wagon, cumbcred with skim
and drawn BY two oxen, blocked the
thoroughfare; one Cyprian costermongez
cried n1at cnun nnyonned ennw and = snr,nuf1