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Turkish rabble, seeing a party of infidels on chap. 
horseback^ could not be restrained from offering ' 
their accustomed insults and violence. Conse- 
quently, we had some large stones thrown at 
us. We used all the expedition possible to get 
to the harbour, where we left our horses, and 
hired a boat to take us across ; leaving also the 
Tchohodar and Antonio to settle with the Surud- 
jees, and to follow afterwards with the baggage. 
Near to the shore, in passing down to the har- Soros of 
bour, we saw the most beautiful Soros we had Marbie. 
ever beheld. It consisted entirely of the green 
Atracian marble, or verde-antico, in five pieces. 
Upon one side of it, a cross was represented ; 
proving that the workmanship was executed 
in the time of the Christian Emperors: but it 
was a tomb fit for the proudest sovereign of 
the Eastern Empire. We heard a report after- 
wards, that our Ambassador had claimed it for 
the Nation ; therefore it may possibly now be 
in England. 
Landing at Tophana, we hastened up to our psra, 
former lodgings in Pera; finding, upon our 
(l) la some parts of Turkey^ especially in Egypt, Christians are 
prohibited the use of horses, and compelled to appear only upon 
mses; the Moslems deeming it an act of presumption, in persons 
proscribed as infidels^ to appear in public as equestrians, 
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