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Heroes of the Telegraph
·
John Munro
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The
following
extracts
from
letters
to
his
wife
will
illustrate
the
nature
of
the
work,
and
also
give
an
idea
of
Jenkin's
clear
and
graphic
style
of
correspondence:--May
14.--'Syra
is
semi-eastern.
The
pavement,
huge
shapeless
blocks
sloping
to
a
central
gutter;
from
this
base
two-storeyed
houses,
sometimes
plaster,
many-coloured,
sometimes
rough-hewn
marble,
rise,
dirty
and
ill-finished,
to
straight,
plain,
flat
roofs;
shops
guiltless
of
windows,
with
signs
in
Greek
letters;
dogs,
Greeks
in
blue,
baggy,
Zouave
breeches
and
a
fez,
a
few
narghilehs,
and
a
sprinkling
of
the
ordinary
continental
shop-boys.
In
the
evening
I
tried
one
more
walk
in
Syra
with
A----,
but
in
vain
endeavoured
to
amuse
myself
or
to
spend
money,
the
first
effort
resulting
in
singing
DOODAH
to
a
passing
Greek
or
two,
the
second
in
spending--no,
in
making
A----
spend--threepence
on
coffee
for
three.'
Canea
Bay,
in
Candia
(or
Crete),
which
they
reached
on
May
16,
appeared
to
Jenkin
one
of
the
loveliest
sights
that
man
could
witness.
May
23.--'I
spent
the
day
at
the
little
station
where
the
cable
was
landed,
which
has
apparently
been
first
a
Venetian
monastery
and
then
a
Turkish
mosque.
At
any
rate
the
big
dome
is
very
cool,
and
the
little
ones
hold
batteries
capitally.
A
handsome
young
Bashi-Bazouk
guards
it,
and
a
still
handsomer
mountaineer
is
the
servant;
so
I
draw
them
and
the
monastery
and
the
hill
till
I'm
black
in
the
face
with
heat,
and
come
on
board
to
hear
the
Canea
cable
is
still
bad.'
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