Byron

th the nations engaged in the war. There were twenty-four Turks, including women and children, who had suffered all the rigours of captivity at Missolonghi since the beginning of the revo

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ction of the meanest pretender to humane feelings. I have found here twenty-four Turks, including women and children, who have long pined in distress, far from the means of support and the consolations of their home. The Government has consigned them to me: I transmit them to Prevesa, whither they desire to be sent. I hope yo

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almost unnoticed. The whole story is full of pat

rrested. The males were cruelly put to death, and their wives and families were handed over to the Greek householders as slav

and the marks remained on the angle of the wall against which, a few weeks previously, they had dashed the brains of the youngest, only five years of age. A little girl, nine years old, remained to be the only companion of her misery. Like a timid lamb, she stood by her mother, naked and shivering, drawing closer and closer to h

er on several occasions; of the dignified manner in which she replied to the insults of her persecutors, that he expressed a wish to see the mother and child. On doing so, he became so struck by Hatajè's beauty, the na?veté of her answers, and the spiritedness of her observations on the murderers of her brethren, that he decided on adopting her. "Banish fear for ever from you

rds: "Allah is great!" Byron ordered costly dresses to be made for them, and sent to Hatajè a necklace of sequins. He desired me to s

d by means of my servant, a Suliote who spoke Turkish fluently, narrated their misfortunes, and the numberless horrors of which they had been spectators. One woman said: "Our fears are not yet over; we are kept as victims for future sacrifices, hourly expecting our doom. An unpleasant piece of news, a drunken party, a fit of ill-humour or of caprice, may deci

y Turkish woman to prepare for departure. All, a few excepted, embarked and were conveyed at Byron's expense to Prevesa. They amounted to twenty-two. A few days previously four Turkish prisoners had been sent

little Hatajè? On February

sily provide for her; if not, I can send her to Italy for education. She is very lively and quick, and with great black Oriental eyes and Asiatic features. All her brothers were killed in the Revolution; her mother wishes to return to her husband, but says that she would rather entrust the child to me, in the present state of the country. Her extreme youth and sex have hitherto saved her life, but there is no saying what might occur in the course

have proposed to Dr. Kennedy at Cephalonia that Mrs. Kennedy should take

ild a few times with her mother, and what I have seen is favourable, or I should not take so much interest in her behalf. If she turns out well, my idea would be to send her to my daughter in England (if not to respectable persons in Italy), and so to provide for her as to enable her to live with reput

of fate, they departed in the Florida-the vessel that bore the dead body of their protector to the inhospitable lazaretto at Zante. With wonderful p

phan went with

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in the field

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been: there the

heard no more-

to shield her,

te when the Florida was p

rom Usouff Pacha, to give them up. It being customary, whenever claims of this kind are made, to consult the parties themselves, both the mother and her child were questioned as to their wishes on the subject. The latter, with tears i

ld's father received them in a transport of joy. 'I thought you slaves,' said

f those who had spoken to Byron! If, in her ninety-third year, she still recalls the events of 1824, she will hold up the tor

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Canto VI