Antiochus Strategos part 11
Beautiful spot near Ephesus
Thence they sailed for Syracuse, a city in the same country. Sailing from Syracuse, they crossed the Adriatic and reached the...
Antiochus Strategos part 12
If Miletus is meant, the pilgrims must have landed there before reaching Patara. The only place between Patara and Chelidonia is a town,...
War with the Scyths part 9
After saying this and encouraging the others, he was the first to dash like a firebrand upon the Scythians and struck at the first...
Antiochus Strategos part 3
How many souls were slain in the reservoir of Mamel! How many perished of hunger and thirst! How many priests and monks were massacred...
Antiochus Strategos part 4
His notices of the Holy Places at Jerusalem, however, are of the highest interest, and some of them are of great archaeological value. Among...
Antiochus Strategos part 5
I know that it may seem very bold on my part to write this book when there are so many holy priests capable of...
Antiochus Strategos part 6
There before the cross they laid him. Then they began earnestly to implore God, the Maker of all things, to bring them consolation and...
War with the Scyths part 13
The Comans returned, fully prepared for war with the Scythians, but not finding them and learning that they had come over the passes, occupied...
The Bet part 5
“If I have the courage to fulfil my intention,” thought the old man, “the Suspicion will fall on the watchman first of all.”
In the...
True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal part 6
Then she related the whole story to Captain Watson`s family; what gown she had on, and how striped; and that Mrs. Veal told her...
