Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. At Semlin I still was encompassed by the scenes and the sounds of familiar life; the din of a busy world still vexed and cheered me; the unveiled faces of women still shone in the light of day. Yet, whenever I chose to look southward, I saw the Ottoman's fortress- austere, and darkly impending high over the vale of the Danube- historic Belgrade. I had come, as it were, to the end of this wheel-going Europe, and now my eyes would see the splendour and havoc of the East.