Evil in a Mask (2014)
“The intelligence sources serving the French Embassy were good. Within a few days of the coup d’état, the General had learned that the new Sultan, Mustapha IV, and his mother, as a natural corollary of their opposition to Aimée who led the pro-French party, had long been in secret communication with the British and the Russians. Therefore, there was now not the least chance of Gardane’s mission succeeding in Turkey.
He had, therefore, decided to take his whole party on as soon as possible to Per...sia. By the land route, its capital, Isfahan, was some fifteen hundred miles from Constantinople; but a good part of the journey could be done by sea, and in a vessel there was no necessity for horses to be rested while their tired riders slept in a camp or inn. Ships proceeded on their way day and night. So, although the distance to Antioch by sea was a thousand miles, and they would then still have to travel another thousand miles overland, Gardane felt that, during the summer weather, unless the winds proved unusually contrary for that season, they would save several days and themselves much exertion if they went as far as they could by ship.MoreLess
He had, therefore, decided to take his whole party on as soon as possible to Per...sia. By the land route, its capital, Isfahan, was some fifteen hundred miles from Constantinople; but a good part of the journey could be done by sea, and in a vessel there was no necessity for horses to be rested while their tired riders slept in a camp or inn. Ships proceeded on their way day and night. So, although the distance to Antioch by sea was a thousand miles, and they would then still have to travel another thousand miles overland, Gardane felt that, during the summer weather, unless the winds proved unusually contrary for that season, they would save several days and themselves much exertion if they went as far as they could by ship.MoreLess
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