Memories of the Crimea / [Mary Aloysius].

  • Aloysius, Mary, Sister.
Date:
1897
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memories of the Crimea / [Mary Aloysius]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VI. WITH THE SICK AND WOUNDED AT KOULALI. I shall now return to the Sisters from whom we parted at Galata. The day five of us left for Scutari the other ten took up their abode at Therapia, on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus, about eight miles from Con- stantinople. The house belonged to the British Embassy. The Ambassador’s house was very near where Miss Stanley and her party were staying. The Sisters, all so anxious to be at work, were storming Heaven with prayers, and at last news arrived that a new hospital must be opened—there were such numbers coming from the Crimea and nowhere to put them. There was a Turkish barracks in a lovely place on the banks of the Bosphorus, called Koulali, in which there were Russian prisoners. They were re- moved, poor fellows, I don’t know where—