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Title: The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II
Author: William James Stillman
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A JOURNALIST, VOLUME II
IN TWO VOLUMES
WILLIAM JAMES STILLMAN
1901
[Illustration: W. Stillman]
CONTENTS
CHAP.
XX. CONSULAR LIFE IN CRETE
XXI. THE CRETAN INSURRECTION
XXII. DIPLOMACY
XXIII. ATHENS
XXIV. ROSSETTI AND HIS FRIENDS
XXV. RETURN TO JOURNALISM
XXVI. THE MONTENEGRINS AND THEIR PRINCE
XXVII. THE INSURRECTION IN HERZEGOVINA
XXVIII. A JOURNEY IN MONTENEGRO AND ALBANIA
XXIX. WAR CORRESPONDENCE AT RAGUSA
XXX. THE WAR OF 1876
XXXI. RUSSIAN INTERVENTION AND THE CAMPAIGN OF 1877
XXXII. A JOURNEY INTO THE BERDAS
XXXIII. THE TAKING OF NIKSICH
XXXIV. MORATSHA
XXXV. THE LEVANT AGAIN
XXXVI. GREEK BROILS--TRICOUPI--FLORENCE
XXXVII. THE BLOCKADE OF GREECE
XXXVIII. CRISPI--A SECRET-SERVICE MISSION--MONTENEGRO REVISITED
XXXIX. ITALIAN POLITICS
XL. ADOWAH AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
CHAPTER XX
CONSULAR LIFE IN CRETE
Cholera was raging all over the Levant, and there was no direct
communication with any Turkish port without passing through
quarantine. In the uncertainty as to getting to my new post by
any route, I decided to leave my wife and boy at Rome, with a
newcomer,--our Lisa, then two or three months old,--and go on an
exploring excursion. Providing myself with a photographic apparatus, I
took steamer at Civita Vecchia for Peiraeus. Arrived at Athens I found
that no regular communication with any Turkish port was possible, and
that the steamers to Crete had been withdrawn, though there had not
been, either at that or at any previous time, a case of cholera in
Crete; but such was the panic prevailing in Greece that absolute
non-intercours
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