" MARK TWAIN " ON THE TURKS.
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At Damascus we saw the mausoleum of tlie 5,000 Christians who were massacred there in 1861 by the Turks. They say those narrow streets ran with blood for several days, and thit men, women, and children were butchered indiscriminately, and left to rot by hundreds, all through the Christian quarters ! they say, further, that the stench was dreadful. All the Christians who could get away fled from the city, and the Mahomedaus would not defile their hands by burying the " infidel dogs." The thirst for blool extended to the highlands of Hermon and Anti-Lebanon, and in a short time ■ twenty-five thousand more Christians were massacred, and their possessions laid waste. How they hat-e a Christian in Damxscu3, and pretty much all over Turkjydom as well, and how they will pay for it when Russia turns her forces upon them agaiu. It is 1 soothing to the heart to abuse England and France for interposing ' to save the Ottoman Empire from the destruction it has so richly ' deserved for a thousand yeai's. It hurts my vanity to see these | pagans refuse to eat of the food that has been cooked for us, or to drink from a goatskin which we have polluted with our Christian. 1 lips, except by filtering the water through a rag which they put .over the mouth of it, or through a sponge! I never disliked a j Chinaman as I do these degraded Turks and Arabs, and when j Eussia is ready to go to war with them again, I hope England and France will not find it good breeding, or good judgment, to, I interfere.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 205, 9 March 1877, Page 7
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280"MARK TWAIN" ON THE TURKS. New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 205, 9 March 1877, Page 7
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