In This Particular, I Imitate The
Gratitude Of Tavernier, Who Was Radically Cured Of The Gout By A
Turkish Aga
In Aegypt, who gave him the bastinado, because he
would not look at the head of the bashaw of Cairo,
Which the aga
had in a bag, to be presented to the grand signior at
Constantinople.
I did not expect to see the rest of our company that night, as I
never doubted but they would stay with the coach at the inn on
the other side of the Arno: but at mid-night we were joined by
Miss C - and Mr. R - , who had left the carriage at the inn, under
the auspices of the captain and my servant, and followed our
foot-steps by walking from the ferry-boat to Florence, conducted
by one of the boatmen. Mr. R - seemed to be much ruffled and
chagrined; but, as he did not think proper to explain the cause,
he had no right to expect that I should give him satisfaction
for some insult he had received from my servant. They had been
exposed to a variety of disagreeable adventures from the
impracticability of the road. The coach had been several times in
the most imminent hazard of being lost with all our baggage; and
at one place, it was necessary to hire a dozen of oxen, and as
many men, to disengage it from the holes into which it had run.
It was in the confusion of these adventures, that the captain and
his valet, Mr. R - and my servant, had like to have gone all by
the ears together.
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