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... visiting the tombs of the Moslem saints . In the years from 1640 onwards he visited nearly every part of the Turkish ... visited . Yet sober accounts of the trades represented in the bazaar at Constantinople mingle with accounts of the ...
... visiting the tombs of the Moslem saints . In the years from 1640 onwards he visited nearly every part of the Turkish ... visited . Yet sober accounts of the trades represented in the bazaar at Constantinople mingle with accounts of the ...
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... visited the precinct , was so ill - starred as to fall in love with the goddess . He would spend all day in the temple and at first gave the impression of pious awe . For in the morning he would leave his bed long before dawn to go to ...
... visited the precinct , was so ill - starred as to fall in love with the goddess . He would spend all day in the temple and at first gave the impression of pious awe . For in the morning he would leave his bed long before dawn to go to ...
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... visited him in his old age . Mr Barker was an old resident in the East and of what is called a ' Levantine ' family , well known in Syria , and especially at Aleppo , where it had been connected in trade with the Levant Company , and ...
... visited him in his old age . Mr Barker was an old resident in the East and of what is called a ' Levantine ' family , well known in Syria , and especially at Aleppo , where it had been connected in trade with the Levant Company , and ...
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