Forty Years in Constantinople the Recollections of Sir Edwin Pears 1873 1915
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From the same wharf, and at the same time, two boats started for the same places, one chartered by the Government, the other belonging to the Government and running against its orders. The Committee dared not employ force against its own men.
The porters of Constantinople belong to a guild or esnaf, and had a monopoly for the loading and discharging of ships, the price being fixed by the esnaf. Some of the stories told of the absolute power exercised by the porters had their ludicrous side. Sea...ted on a pile of merchandise upon a lighter, the chief of the esnaf, a great burly fellow in the ordinary dress of a coal-heaver, sat as a Lord Chancellor may have sat five hundred years ago on his woolsack. No Lord Chancellor ever known to me could possibly have advanced his decisions in a more lordly, dogmatic, un- appealable way than did this chairman of the guild of porters. The price to be paid for the discharge of such a ship was so much. If any objection were raised the answer was, " Discharge will not take place at anything less, " and from THE COUNTER REVOLUTION 271 that decision there was no appeal.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
From the same wharf, and at the same time, two boats started for the same places, one chartered by the Government, the other belonging to the Government and running against its orders. The Committee dared not employ force against its own men.
The porters of Constantinople belong to a guild or esnaf, and had a monopoly for the loading and discharging of ships, the price being fixed by the esnaf. Some of the stories told of the absolute power exercised by the porters had their ludicrous side. Sea...ted on a pile of merchandise upon a lighter, the chief of the esnaf, a great burly fellow in the ordinary dress of a coal-heaver, sat as a Lord Chancellor may have sat five hundred years ago on his woolsack. No Lord Chancellor ever known to me could possibly have advanced his decisions in a more lordly, dogmatic, un- appealable way than did this chairman of the guild of porters. The price to be paid for the discharge of such a ship was so much. If any objection were raised the answer was, " Discharge will not take place at anything less, " and from THE COUNTER REVOLUTION 271 that decision there was no appeal.
What to read after Forty Years in Constantinople the Recollections of Sir Edwin Pears 1873 1915?
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