264 THERAPIA, 



CHAPTER XIII. 



THERAPIA — UNKIAR SKELESSI FIRE — SULTAN MAHMOUD — 



CONSTANTINOPLE INTOLERABLE AS A PERMANENT RESIBENCE 



FERDINANDO PRIMO STEAM-VESSEL MOTLEY ASSEMBLAGE 



ON BOARD ANECDOTE OF A PLUM-PUDDING VARNA 



horse's ANTIPATHY TO MEDICINE — WORKS OF VARNA SIEGE 



IN 1829 DISMAY OF A SWISS AT MISSING HIS WAY. 



Lord Ponsonby, the then EngUsh ambassador, 

 resided at Therapia, which is a village on the Bos- 

 phorus, towards the Black Sea, and distant about 

 seven miles from Constantinople. It is a very de- 

 lightful situation, and far preferable to Pera, where 

 the embassy used to reside before the ambassa- 

 dor's palace, in common with those of almost all 

 the other powers, was consumed by fire a few years 

 since. The current running through the Bos- 

 phorus is very rapid, and at some turnings the 

 caiques cannot stem it, but are pulled along by 

 two ropes. It is impossible to imagine any thing 

 more picturesque than both sides of the Bos- 

 phorus, all the way from Constantinople to the 



