294 ISMAIL^ — TULDCHA. 



Any lady making this voyage, ought to be pro- 

 vided with a good set of musquito curtains, made 

 as small and portable as possible. It may per- 

 haps be thought, that to sleep on deck would be 

 the best way of escaping their merciless attacks. 

 There is, however, an objection to this, because the 

 whole of the country along this part of the Danube 

 is for many miles a continued marsh of a very un- 

 healthy description; consequently, inconveniences 

 more serious than musquito bites might be occa- 

 sioned by a traveller incautiously exposing himself 

 in the nio;ht air. 



Proceeding up the river as fast as the current, 

 which runs with considerable rapidity, permitted 

 us, we saw at a distance " Ismail hapless Town," 

 and bethought ourselves of the savage massacre 

 perpetrated there by the Russian army, under 

 Suwarrow, 



" Of forty thousand who had mann'd the wall, 



Some hundreds breathed — the rest were silent all." 



Byron. 



We next came to Tuldcha, a Bulgarian town 

 of some size, which bore a greater appearance of 

 neatness than any place I had before seen in the 

 dominions of the sultan. The men wear fur caps 



