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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II, by William James Stillman This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II Author: William James Stillman Release Date: March 15, 2004 [eBook #11594] Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A JOURNALIST, VOLUME II*** E-text prepared by the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team 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I found that no regular communication with any Turkish port was possible, and that the steamers to Crete had been withdrawn, though there had not been, either at that or at any previous time, a case of cholera in Crete; but such was the panic prevailing in Greece that absolute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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