Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey . n5 . i V. TERAPIA. 193 appeared. From along the shores on either hand we heard thehoarse voices of Turkish mariners shouting to their companions ;the echoes repeated the sounds from cliff to cliff, but the be-ings who uttered them were veiled beneath the shadows of theprecipices which impended over the Bosphorus3; then as wecame abreast of the castles, we were hailed by the centinels fromthe Asiatic shore; but on declaring ourselves, were permitted toproceed. Presently, the lights of the village of Buyukdereflashed upon the
Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey . n5 . i V. TERAPIA. 193 appeared. From along the shores on either hand we heard thehoarse voices of Turkish mariners shouting to their companions ;the echoes repeated the sounds from cliff to cliff, but the be-ings who uttered them were veiled beneath the shadows of theprecipices which impended over the Bosphorus3; then as wecame abreast of the castles, we were hailed by the centinels fromthe Asiatic shore; but on declaring ourselves, were permitted toproceed. Presently, the lights of the village of Buyukdereflashed upon the eye, and danced in long reflected rays, fromthe surface of the rippling current, which was bearing us insilence at the rate of several miles an hour*, amidst a fleet offishing boats, each carrying a light in the prow, by the assistanceof which, the fishermen were spearing tunnies, according tothe ancient Greek manner, alluded to by Oppian in hisCynegetics. Qiiemadmodum vero pisces per noctem dolosi piscatoresAd bolum impellunt, velocibus scaphis ferentesLucidas faces: trepid
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