CONSTANTINOPLE TO ANTIOCH 



Englishmen came aboard and asked for us. 

 They were from the MacAndrews & Forbes 

 Liquorice Works. One, a Mr. Sneddon, was 

 very sick of fever, and the other looked to be 

 in a bad way. While I was producing a letter 

 from Mr. Forbes Mr. Sneddon suddenly grew 

 faint, and the other man apologized. 



"That poor fellow is down with the fever 

 again," he remarked, and as Sneddon lay down 

 on the deck he added : "It will only be for a mo- 

 ment; he will be all right presently." Mr. 

 Sneddon lay there groaning, but after a few 

 moments he straightened up and read the let- 

 ter. That's the way the fever takes you. 



Then we went ashore and as soon as we 

 landed we ran against the ignorant red-tape of 

 the Turkish empire. All of our guns were 

 seized, except a three-barrelled one and that 

 was exempted because the officials thought that 

 the third barrel (a rifle one), was the ramrod 

 holder. We just had to have those guns, so 

 after breakfast we went to the Custom House 

 where the Governor of the town was closeted 

 with the Collector of the Port. Both these offi- 

 cials had orders from Constantinople to pass 

 our sporting rifles, but they had been advised, 

 they said, that our firearms did not come within 



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