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Excerpt from The Pasha Papers: Epistles of Mohammed Pasha, Rear Admiral of the Turkish Navy Written From New York to His Friend Abel Ben Hassen IN attempting to translate, into practical, methodical English, the following letters of Mohammed Pasha, writ ten to a doting friend, and suffused with an Oriental glow of feeling, not unlike the mellow radiance of the rising sun, I feel that I have undertaken a difficult task. The Rear Admiral was reared in the land where the cypress and myrtle are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime; where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime. The Translator was born and bred in the State of New York, where the Erie Canal is considered a fine effort of the imagination, steam and electricity the greatest of forces, and the purchase of ready - made clothing a desir able method of saving time and money; and where the love of the turtle melts into sorrow, only when there is a total absence of that delicious reptile. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.